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Deny all mention of theMerciful.
Impatience is the stuff man is made of.You shall before long seeMy
signs: do not askMe to hasten them.
They say: 'When will this promise be fulfilled, if what you say be
true?'
If only the unbelievers knew the day when they shall be powerless
to shield their faces and their backs from the fire of Hell; the day when
none shall help them! It will overtake them unawares and stupefy
them. They shall have no power to ward it off, nor shall they be
reprieved.
Other apostles have beenmocked before you; but those who scoffed
at themwere smitten by the very thing theymocked.
Say. 'Who will protect you, by night and by day, from the Lord of
Mercy?' Yet they turn away from their Lord's remembrance.
Or have they other gods to defend them? They shall have no power
over their own salvation, nor shall they be protected from Our
scourge.
We have bestowed good things upon these men and on their fathers
until life became long for them. Can they not see how We visit their
land and reduce its borders? Is it theywhowill triumph?
Say; 'I warn you only by revelation.' But the deaf can hear nothing
when they are warned.
Yet if the lightest touch of the vengeance of your Lord affected
them, theywould say; 'Woe to us: we have done wrong! '
We shall set up just scales on the Day of Resurrection, so that no
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