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• Or (take) the similitude of one who passed …
  Or (take) the similitude of one who passed by a hamlet, all in ruins to its roofs. He said: "Oh! how shall Allah bring it (ever) to life, after (this) its death?" but Allah caused him to die for a hundred years, then raised him up (again). He said: "How long didst thou tarry (thus)?" He said: (Perhaps) a day or part of a day." He said: "Nay, thou hast tarried thus a hundred years; but look at thy food and thy drink; they show no signs of age; and look at thy donkey: And that We may make of thee a sign unto the people, Look further at the bones, how We bring them together and clothe them with flesh." When this was shown clearly to him, he said: "I know that Allah hath power over all things."
  ow that Allah hath power over all things."  +
• Or (the Unbelievers' state) is like the de …
  Or (the Unbelievers' state) is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean, overwhelmed with billow topped by billow, topped by (dark) clouds: depths of darkness, one above another: if a man stretches out his hands, he can hardly see it! for any to whom Allah giveth not light, there is no light!
  Allah giveth not light, there is no light!  +
• Or He bestows both males and females, and He leaves barren whom He will: for He is full of Knowledge and Power.  +
• Or He can cause them to perish because of the (evil) which (the men) have earned; but much doth He forgive.  +
• Or We shall show thee that (accomplished) which We have promised them: for verily We shall prevail over them.  +
• Or a little more; and recite the Qur'an in slow, measured rhythmic tones.  +
• Or are the Treasures of thy Lord with them, or are they the managers (of affairs)?  +
• Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, they have no firm belief.  +
• Or do they envy mankind for what Allah hath given them of his bounty? but We had already given the people of Abraham the Book and Wisdom, and conferred upon them a great kingdom.  +
• Or do they intend a plot (against thee)? But those who defy Allah are themselves involved in a Plot!  +
• Or do they not recognise their Messenger, that they deny him?  +
• Or do they say, "He fabricated the (Message)"? Nay, they have no faith!  +
• Or do they say, "He forged it"? say: "Bring then a Sura like unto it, and call (to your aid) anyone you can besides Allah, if it be ye speak the truth!"  +
• Or do they say, "He has forged it"? Nay, it is the Truth from thy Lord, that thou mayest admonish a people to whom no warner has come before thee: in order that they may receive guidance.  +
• Or do they say, "He has forged it"? Say: "If I had forged it, on me were my sin! and I am free of the sins of which ye are guilty!  +
• Or do they say, "He has forged it"? Say: " …
  Or do they say, "He has forged it"? Say: "Had I forged it, then can ye obtain no single (blessing) for me from Allah. He knows best of that whereof ye talk (so glibly)! Enough is He for a witness between me and you! And he is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
  ! And he is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."  +
• Or do they say, "He is possessed"? Nay, he has brought them the Truth, but most of them hate the Truth.  +
• Or do they say: "We acting together can defend ourselves"?  +
• Or do they say:- "A Poet! we await for him some calamity (hatched) by Time!"  +
• Or do they think that We hear not their secrets and their private counsels? Indeed (We do), and Our messengers are by them, to record.  +
• Or do those in whose hearts is a disease, think that Allah will not bring to light all their rancour?  +
• Or do ye feel secure that He Who is in Heaven will not send against you a violent tornado (with showers of stones), so that ye shall know how (terrible) was My warning?  +
• Or do ye feel secure that He will not send you back a second time to sea and send against you a heavy gale to drown you because of your ingratitude, so that ye find no helper. Therein against Us?  +
• Or do ye say that Abraham, Isma'il Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes were Jews or Christians? Say: Do ye know better than Allah? Ah! who is more unjust than those who conceal the testimony they have from Allah? but Allah is not unmindful of what ye do!  +
• Or do ye think that ye shall enter the Gar …
  Or do ye think that ye shall enter the Garden (of bliss) without such (trials) as came to those who passed away before you? they encountered suffering and adversity, and were so shaken in spirit that even the Messenger and those of faith who were with him cried: "When (will come) the help of Allah?" Ah! Verily, the help of Allah is (always) near!
  erily, the help of Allah is (always) near!  +
• Or dost thou reflect that the Companions of the Cave and of the Inscription were wonders among Our Sign?  +
• Or else did they feel secure against its coming in broad daylight while they played about (care-free)?  +
• Or enjoins Righteousness?  +
• Or has He only daughters and ye have sons?  +
• Or have We sent down authority to them, which points out to them the things to which they pay part-worship?  +
• Or have they a god other than Allah? Exalted is Allah far above the things they associate with Him!  +
• Or have they a ladder, by which they can (climb up to heaven and) listen (to its secrets)? Then let (such a) listener of theirs produce a manifest proof.  +
• Or have they gods that can guard them from Us? They have no power to aid themselves, nor can they be defended from Us.  +
• Or have they some "Partners" (in Allahhead)? Then let them produce their "partners", if they are truthful!  +
• Or have they taken (for worship) gods from the earth who can raise (the dead)?  +
• Or have they taken for worship (other) gods besides him? Say, "Bring your convincing proof: this is the Message of those with me and the Message of those before me." But most of them know not the Truth, and so turn away.  +
• Or have they the dominion of the heavens and the earth and all between? If so, let them mount up with the ropes and means (to reach that end)!  +
• Or have they the treasures of the mercy of thy Lord, - the Exalted in Power, the Grantor of Bounties without measure?  +
• Or have ye Covenants with Us to oath, reaching to the Day of Judgment, (providing) that ye shall have whatever ye shall demand?  +
• Or have ye a book through which ye learn-  +
• Or have ye an authority manifest?  +
• Or is it that thou askest them for some recompense? But the recompense of thy Lord is best: He is the Best of those who give sustenance.  +
• Or is it that thou dost ask for a reward, so that they are burdened with a load of debt?-  +
• Or is it that thou dost ask them for a reward, so that they are burdened with a load of debt?-  +
• Or lest ye should say: "If the Book had on …
  Or lest ye should say: "If the Book had only been sent down to us, we should have followed its guidance better than they." Now then hath come unto you a clear (sign) from your Lord, - and a guide and a mercy: then who could do more wrong than one who rejecteth Allah's signs, and turneth away therefrom? In good time shall We requite those who turn away from Our signs, with a dreadful penalty, for their turning away.
  dreadful penalty, for their turning away.  +
• Or lest ye should say: "Our fathers before us may have taken false gods, but we are (their) descendants after them: wilt Thou then destroy us because of the deeds of men who were futile?"  +
• Or that He may not call them to account in the midst of their goings to and fro, without a chance of their frustrating Him?-  +
• Or that He may not call them to account by a process of slow wastage - for thy Lord is indeed full of kindness and mercy.  +
• Or that We created the angels female, and they are witnesses (thereto)?  +
• Or that he might receive admonition, and the teaching might profit him?  +