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he called him a liar and rebelled. Then he retreated hastily, and gathered, and proclaimed, and said, 'I am your Lord most High !' [25] but God seized him with the punishment of the future life and of the former.
Verily, in that is a lesson to him who fears !
Are ye harder to create or the heaven that He has built ? He raised its height and fashioned it ; and made its night to cover it, and brought forth its noonday light; [30] and the earth after that He did stretch out. He brings forth from it its water and its pasture.
And the mountains He did firmly set, a provision for you and for your cattle. p. And when the great predominant calamity shall
come, [35] on the day when man shall remember what he strove after, and hell shall be brought out for him who sees!
And as for him who was outrageous and preferred the life of this world, verily, hell is the resort !
[40] But as for him who feared the station of his Lord, and prohibited his soul from lust, verily,
Paradise is the resort ! the They shall ask thee about the Hour, for when it
is set. Whereby canst thou mention it ? Unto thy Lord its period belongs.
[45] Thou art only a warner to him who fears it.
On the day they see it, it will be as though they had only tarried an evening or the noon thereof.
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