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wrong-doers never shall prosper.
006.022 One day shall We gather them all together: We shall say to those who ascribed partners (to Us): "Where are
the partners whom ye (invented and) talked about?"
006.023 There will then be (left) no subterfuge for them but to say: "By God our Lord, we were not those who joined
gods with God."
006.024 Behold! how they lie against their own souls! But the (lie) which they invented will leave them in the lurch.
006.025 Of them there are some who (pretend to) listen to thee; but We have thrown veils on their hearts, So they
understand it not, and deafness in their ears; if they saw every one of the signs, not they will believe in them; in so much
that when they come to thee, they (but) dispute with thee; the Unbelievers say: "These are nothing but tales of the
ancients."
006.026 Others they keep away from it, and themselves they keep away; but they only destroy their own souls, and they
perceive it not.
006.027 If thou couldst but see when they are confronted with the Fire! They will say: "Would that we were but sent
back! Then would we not reject the signs of our Lord, but would be amongst those who believe!"
006.028 Yea, in their own (eyes) will become manifest what before they concealed. But if they were returned, they
would certainly relapse to the things they were forbidden, for they are indeed liars.
006.029 And they (sometimes) say: "There is nothing except our life on this earth, and never shall we be raised up
again."
006.030 If thou couldst but see when they are confronted with their Lord! He will say: "Is not this the truth?" They will
say: "Yea, by our Lord!" He will say: "Taste ye then the penalty, because ye rejected Faith."
006.031 Lost indeed are they who treat it as a falsehood that they must meet God,- until on a sudden the hour is on
them, and they say: "Ah! woe unto us that we took no thought of it"; for they bear their burdens on their backs, and evil
indeed are the burdens that they bear?
006.032 What is the life of this world but play and amusement? But best is the home in the hereafter, for those who
are righteous. Will ye not then understand?
006.033 We know indeed the grief which their words do cause thee: It is not thee they reject: it is the signs of God,
which the wicked contemn.
006.034 Rejected were the apostles before thee: with patience and constancy they bore their rejection and their
wrongs, until Our aid did reach them: there is none that can alter the words (and decrees) of God. Already hast thou
received some account of those apostles.
006.035 If their spurning is hard on thy mind, yet if thou wert able to seek a tunnel in the ground or a ladder to the skies
and bring them a sign,- (what good?). If it were God's will, He could gather them together unto true guidance: so be
not thou amongst those who are swayed by ignorance (and impatience)!
006.036 Those who listen (in truth), be sure, will accept: as to the dead, God will raise them up; then will they be
turned unto Him.
006.037 They say: "Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord?" Say: "God hath certainly power to send down
a sign: but most of them understand not.
006.038 There is not an animal (that lives) on the earth, nor a being that flies on its wings, but (forms part of)
communities like you. Nothing have we omitted from the Book, and they (all) shall be gathered to their Lord in the
end.
006.039 Those who reject our sings are deaf and dumb,- in the midst of darkness profound: whom God willeth, He
leaveth to wander: whom He willeth, He placeth on the way that is straight.
006.040 Say: "Think ye to yourselves, if there come upon you the wrath of God, or the Hour (that ye dread), would ye
then call upon other than God?- (reply) if ye are truthful!
006.041 "Nay,- On Him would ye call, and if it be His will, He would remove (the distress) which occasioned your call
upon Him, and ye would forget (the false gods) which ye join with Him!"
006.042 Before thee We sent (apostles) to many nations, and We afflicted the nations with suffering and adversity,
that they might learn humility.
006.043 When the suffering reached them from us, why then did they not learn humility? On the contrary their hearts