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| 1. Alif Lam Ra. These are verses of the perfect Book and of the illuminating Qur'an. 2. Often do the disbelievers wish they Muslims. 3. Leave them alone that they may eat and enjoy themselves and that vain hope may beguile them, but they will soon know. 4. And never a town have WE destroyed but there was for it a known decree. 5. No people can escape their doom by outstripping their appointed term, nor can they remain behind. 6. And they said, `O thou to whom this exhortation has been sent down, thou art surely a madman, 7. `Why dost thou not bring angels to us, if thou art of the truthful ?' 8. WE do not send down angels but with the requirements of justice, and when WE do send them, the disbelievers are not respited. 9. Verily, it is WE Who have sent down this Exhortation, and most surely WE are its Guardians. 10. And WE sent Messengers before thee among parties of ancient people. 11. And there never came to them a Messenger but they mocked at him. 12. Thus do WE cause this habit of mocking to enter into the hearts of the sinful people. 13. They believe not in this Qur'an, though the example of the former peoples have gone before them. 14. And even if WE open to them a gate in heaven, and they kept ascending through it, 15. They would surely say, `Only our eyes are dazed; rather we are a bewitched people' |
