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Say: 'Allah alone has knowledge of what is hidden. Wait if you will: I
too amone of those whowait.'
And ifWe showmercy to a people after some misfortune has afflicted
them, then they begin to scheme against Our revelations. Say: 'More
swift is Allah's scheming. Our messengers are recording what you
scheme.
It is He who guides you by land and sea until when you are in the
ships, and they sail carrying them in a pleasant wind, a violent wind
overtakes them, and billows surge upon them from every side and they
fear that they are encompassed. Then they pray to Allah with all
fervour, saying: 'Deliver us from this peril and we will be truly
thankful.'
Yet when He has delivered them, they commit evil in the land and act
unjustly.
Omen, it is your own souls that you are corrupting by your enjoyment
in this life: to Us you shall in the end return, andWe will declare to you
all that you have been doing.
This present life is only like water which We send down from the
clouds so that the luxuriant herbage sustaining man and beast may
grow; until when the earth puts on its lovely garment and becomes
adorned, and its people think that they are its masters, down comes Our
scourge upon it, by night or in broad day, laying it waste, as though it
has not blossomed yesterday. Thus We make plain Our revelations to
thoughtful men.
Allah invites you to the Home of Peace. He guides whomHe will to a
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THE QURAN