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036.058 "Peace!" - a word (of salutation) from a Lord Most Merciful!
036.059 "And O ye in sin! Get ye apart this Day!
036.060 "Did I not enjoin on you, O ye Children of Adam, that ye should not worship Satan; for that he was to you an
enemy avowed?-
036.061 "And that ye should worship Me, (for that) this was the Straight Way?
036.062 "But he did lead astray a great multitude of you. Did ye not, then, understand?
036.063 "This is the Hell of which ye were (repeatedly) warned!
036.064 "Embrace ye the (fire) this Day, for that ye (persistently) rejected (Truth)."
036.065 That Day shall We set a seal on their mouths. But their hands will speak to us, and their feet bear witness, to
all that they did.
036.066 If it had been our Will, We could surely have blotted out their eyes; then should they have run about groping
for the Path, but how could they have seen?
036.067 And if it had been Our Will, We could have transformed them (to remain) in their places; then should they
have been unable to move about, nor could they have returned (after error).
036.068 If We grant long life to any, We cause him to be reversed in nature: Will they not then understand?
036.069 We have not instructed the (Prophet) in Poetry, nor is it meet for him: this is no less than a Message and a
Qur'an making things clear:
036.070 That it may give admonition to any (who are) alive, and that the charge may be proved against those who reject
(Truth).
036.071 See they not that it is We Who have created for them - among the things which Our hands have fashioned -
cattle, which are under their dominion?-
036.072 And that We have subjected them to their (use)? of them some do carry them and some they eat:
036.073 And they have (other) profits from them (besides), and they get (milk) to drink. Will they not then be grateful?
036.074 Yet they take (for worship) gods other than God, (hoping) that they might be helped!
036.075 They have not the power to help them: but they will be brought up (before Our Judgment-seat) as a troop (to
be condemned).
036.076 Let not their speech, then, grieve thee. Verily We know what they hide as well as what they disclose.
036.077 Doth not man see that it is We Who created him from sperm? yet behold! he (stands forth) as an open
adversary!
036.078 And he makes comparisons for Us, and forgets his own (origin and) Creation: He says, "Who can give life
to (dry) bones and decomposed ones (at that)?"
036.079 Say, "He will give them life Who created them for the first time! for He is Well-versed in every kind of
creation!-
036.080 "The same Who produces for you fire out of the green tree, when behold! ye kindle therewith (your own
fires)!
036.081 "Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like thereof?" - Yea, indeed! for He is the
Creator Supreme, of skill and knowledge (infinite)!
036.082 Verily, when He intends a thing, His Command is, "be", and it is!
036.083 So glory to Him in Whose hands is the dominion of all things: and to Him will ye be all brought back.
THOSE WHO SET THE RANKS, DRAWN UP IN RANKS, CHAPTER NO. 037
037.001 By those who range themselves in ranks,
037.002 And so are strong in repelling (evil),
037.003 And thus proclaim the Message (of God)!
037.004 Verily, verily, your God is one!-
037.005 Lord of the heavens and of the earth and all between them, and Lord of every point at the rising of the sun!
037.006 We have indeed decked the lower heaven with beauty (in) the stars,-
037.007 (For beauty) and for guard against all obstinate rebellious evil spirits,
037.008 (So) they should not strain their ears in the direction of the Exalted Assembly but be cast away from every