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