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an apostle of their own. 'Serve Allah,' (he said), 'for you have no god
but Him.Will you not take heed? '
(But) the unbelieving elders of his people, who disbelieved and
denied the life to come and on whom We had bestowed the good
things of this life, said: 'This man is but a mortal like yourselves, he
eats of what you eat and drinks of what you drink. If you obey a
mortal like yourselves, you shall be lost. Does he promise you that
when you are dead and turned to dust and bones, you will be raised to
life? Far, very far is that which you are promised. There is no other
life but this, our earthly life: we live and die, never to live again. This
man is but an impostor who tells of Allah what is untrue; We will
never believe him.'
He said: 'Help me, Lord, they will not believe me.' We replied:
'Before long they shall rue it.' Our scourge overlook them in all justice
andWe swept them away like withered leaves. Gone are those wicked
men.
After them We raised other generations-no people can delay their
doom or go before it-and sent forth Our apostles in succession. Yet
time after time they disbelieved their apostles, so that We made them
follow one another and made them a byword (for iniquity). Gone are
the unbelievers.
Then We sent Musa and his brother Harun with Our signs and clear
authority to Pharaoh and his nobles. But they received them with
scorn, for they were arrogant men. 'What!' they said. 'Are we to
believe in two mortals like us, whose people are our bondsmen?’They
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