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with gloom. Would they ascribe to Allah females who adorn
themselves with trinkets and are powerless in disputation?
They regard as females the angels who are Allah's servants. Did
they witness their creation? Their claims shall be noted down and they
shall be closely questioned.
They say: 'Had it been the will of the Merciful, we should never
have worshipped them.' Surely of this they have no knowledge: they
are lying.
Or have We given them a scripture before this, so that they should
hold fast to it?
They say: 'We have found our fathers following a certain religion.
Andwe aremerelywalking in their footsteps.'
Thus, We never sent an apostle before you to warn a nation, but its
wealthy said: 'We have found our fathers following a certain religion;
we aremerelywalking in their footsteps.'
Each (apostle) said: 'What if I bring you a better guidance than that
which you found your fathers following? ' But they replied: 'We deny
the message you have brought.' So We punished them. Consider the
fate of those who disbelieved (Our warning).
(Remember) Ibrahim, who said to his father and to his people: 'I am
innocent of what you worship. (I worship) only Him who created me,
for He will rightly guide me.' He made this an abiding precept among
his descendants, so that theymight turn (to none butAllah).
Yes, I allowed these men and their fathers to live in comfort until
there came to them the truth and an apostle making (things) clear. But
now that the truth has come to them, they say: 'It is witchcraft. We do
reject it.' They also say: 'Why was this Quran not revealed to some
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THE QURAN