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| 1. * | CONSIDER the heavens and that which comes in the night!* |
| 2. * | And what could make thee conceive what it is that comes in the night? |
| 3. * | It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness: |
| 4. * | [for] no human being has ever been left unguarded.* |
| 5. * | LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created: |
| 6. * | he has been created out of a seminal fluid |
| 7. * | issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman].* |
| 8. * | Now, verily, He [who thus creates man in the first instance] is well able to bring him back [to life] |
| 9. * | on the Day when all I secrets will be laid bare, |
| 10. * | and [man] will have neither strength nor helper! |
| 11. * | Consider* the heavens, ever-revolving, |
| 12. * | and the earth, bursting forth with plants! |
| 13. * | BEHOLD, this [divine writ] is indeed a word that between truth and falsehood,* |
| 14. * | and is no idle tale. |
| 15. * | Behold, they [who refuse to accept it] devise many a false argument* [to disprove its truth]; |
| 16. * | but I shall bring all their scheming to nought.* |
| 17. * | Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while! |