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| 68. I deliver to you the messages of My Lord and I am to you a sincere and faithful counsellor. 69. `Do you wonder that an exhortation has come to you from your Lord through a man from among yourselves, that he may warn you ? And remember the time when HE made you heirs to HIS favours after the people of Noah and increasingly endowed you with great physical strength. Remember, then, the favours of ALLAH, that you may prosper.' 70. They said, `Hast thou come to us that we may worship ALLAH alone and forsake what our fathers used to worship ? Bring us, then, that which thou threatenest us with, if thou art of the truthful.' 71. He replied, `Indeed there have already fallen on you punishment and wrath from your Lord. Do you dispute with me about names which you have named - you and your fathers - for which ALLAH has sent down no authority ? Wait then, I am with you among those who wait.' 72. And WE saved him and those who with him by Our mercy and WE cut off the last of the remnants of those who rejected Our Signs and had not believed. 73. And to Thamud WE sent their brother Salih. He said, `O my people, worship ALLAH; you have no god other than HIM. Verily, there has come to you a clear evidence from your Lord - this she-camel of ALLAH, a Sign for you. So leave her that she may feed in ALLAH's earth and do her no harm, lest a punishment seize you; |
