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Or was anything revealed to them that had not been revealed to their
forefathers?
Or is it because they do not know theirApostle that they deny him?
Do they say he is possessed?
He has proclaimed to them the truth. But most of them abhor the
truth. Had the truth followed their desires, the heavens, the earth, and
all who dwell in them would have surely been corrupted. We have
given them their admonition; yet from their admonition they turn
away.
Are you seeking a reward of them? Your Lord's recompense is
better. He is themost munificent Giver.
You are calling them to a straight path, but those who deny the life to
come will ever stray from the right path.
If We showed them mercy and relieved their misfortunes, they
would still blunder about in their transgression. We punished them,
but they neither humbled themselves to their Lord nor did they
submissively invoke Him. And when We opened on them a gate of
severe chastisement, they plunged into utter despair.
It was He who gave you ears, eyes, and hearts: yet you are seldom
thankful.
It was He who placed you on the earth, and before Him you shall be
assembled.
It is He who gives life and death, andHis is the alteration of the night
and the day. Can you not understand?
But they saywhat the ancients said before them. 'Whenwe are bones
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