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| 39. He it is Who made you successors in the earth of those who have passed away. So he, who disbelieves, will himself suffer the consequences of his disbelief. Their disbelief will bring the disbelievers no increase in the sight of their Lord except HIS displeasure, and their disbelief will increase for the disbelievers nothing but loss. 40. Say, `Have you seen your associate-gods whom you call on beside ALLAH ? Show me, then, what they have created of the earth. Or they have a share in the creation of the heavens ? Or, have WE given them a Book so that they have an evidence therefrom ?' Nay, the wrongdoers promise one another nothing but delusion. 41. Surely, ALLAH holds the heavens and the earth lest they deviate from their positions. And if they did deviate, none can hold them back but HE. Verily, HE is Forbearing, Most Forgiving. 42. And they swore by ALLAH their strongest oaths, that if a Warner came to them, they would follow guidance better than any other people. But when a Warner did come to them, it only increased them in aversion, 43. For, they sought exaltation in the earth and devised evil schemes. But the evil schemes encompass none but the authors thereof. Do they, then, look for anything other than ALLAH's way of dealing with the people of old ? But thou wilt never find any change in the way of ALLAH; nor wilt thou ever find any alteration in the way of ALLAH. 44. Have they not traveled in the earth and seen how evil was the end of those who were before them ? And they were stronger than these in power. And ALLAH is not such that anything in the heavens or the earth can frustrate HIS plans; verily, HE is All-Knowing, All-Powerful. |
