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| 23. No intercession avails with HIM, except of him whom HE permits it, until when the hearts of those who are granted permission to intercede are relieved of awe, others would say, `What is that your Lord said ?' They will answer, `The truth.' And HE is the High, the Great. 24. Say, `Who gives you sustenance from the heavens and the earth ?' Say, `ALLAH. Either WE or you are on right guidance or in manifest error. 25. Say, `You will not be questioned as to our sins, nor shall we be questioned as to what you do.' 26. Say, `Our Lord will bring us all together, then HE will judge between us with truth, and HE is the Best Judge, the All-Knowing.' 27. Say, `Show me those whom you have joined with HIM as associates.' Nay ! that cannot be, for HE is ALLAH, the Mighty, the Wise. 28. And WE have not sent thee but as a bearer of glad tidings and a Warner for all mankind, but most men know not. 29. And they say, `When will this promise be fulfilled, if you are truthful ?' 30. Say, `For you is the promise of a day from which you cannot remain behind a single moment, nor can you get ahead of it.' 31. And those who disbelieve say, `We will never believe in this Qur'an nor in what is before it.' Couldst thou but see when the wrongdoers will be made to stand before their Lord, casting the blame on one another ? Those who were deemed weak will say to those who were arrogant, `Had it not been for you, we should, surely, have been believers. |
