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me withYour power.'
Say: 'Truth has come and falsehood has been overthrown. Falsehood
was bound to be discomfited.'
We reveal of the Quran that which is a healing and mercy to true
believers, though it adds nothing but ruin to the evil-doers.
Yet when We bestow favours on man, he turns his back and holds
aloof. But when evil befalls him, he grows despondent.
Say: 'Each man behaves after his own fashion. But your Lord best
knows who is best guided.'
They put questions to you about the Spirit. Say: 'The Spirit is by my
Lord's command. Little indeed is the knowledge vouchsafed to you.'
If We pleased We could take away that which We have revealed to
you: then you should find none to plead with Us on your behalf, except
for mercy fromyour Lord: for His bounty to you is great indeed.
Say: 'If men and jinn combined to write the like of this Quran, they
would surely fail to compose one like it, though they helped one
another.'
And We have set forth in this Quran every kind of parable, yet the
greater part of men refuse (to respond) except with ingratitude. They
say: 'We will not believe in you until you make a spring gush from the
earth, or until you have a garden of palms and vines and cause rivers to
flow forth in them with abundant water; until you cause the sky to fall
upon us in pieces, as you have threatened to do, or bring down Allah
and the angels in our midst; until you build a house of gold, or ascend to
heaven; nor will we believe in your ascension until you have sent down
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THE NIGHT JOURNEY
THE QURAN