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The QUR'ÂN. LXXXVIII, 17-LXXXIX,7.
Do they not look then at the camel how she is created" ?
And at the heaven how it is reared ? And at the mountains how they are set up ? [20] And at the earth how it is spread out ?
But remind : thou art only one to remind; thou art not in authority over them; except such as turns his back and misbelieves, for him will God torment with the greatest torment.
[25] Verily, unto us is their return, and, verily, for us is their account !
Tue CHAPTER OF THE DAWN.
(LXXXIX. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
By the dawn and ten nights ? ! And the single and the double ! And the night when it travels on! Is there in that an oath for a man of sense ?
[5] Hast thou not seen how thy Lord did with 'Âd ?-with Iram of the columns 3 ? the like of which has not been created in the land ?
So useful an animal as a camel being to an Arab a singular instance of divine wisdom.
? The first ten nights of the sacred months of Dhu 'l Heggeh.
3 Sheddâd, the son of 'Âd, is related to have ordered the construction of a terrestrial paradise in the desert of Aden, ostensibly in rivalry of the celestial one, and to have called it Irem, after the name of his great-grandfather Irem (Aram). On going to take possession of it, he and all his people were struck dead by a noise from heaven, and the paradise disappeared. Certain Arab travellers are declared to have come across this mysterious garden.
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