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1.  *     Say: 'It has been revealed to me that a company of the jinn gave ear, then they said, "We have indeed heard a Koran wonderful,
 
2.  *     guiding to rectitude. We believe in it, and we will not associate with our Lord anyone.
 
3.  *     He -- exalted be our Lord's majesty! has not taken to Himself either consort or a son.
 
4.  *     The fool among us spoke against God outrage,
 
5.  *     and we had thought that men and jinn would never speak against God a lie.
 
6.  *     But there were certain men of mankind who would take refuge with certain men of the jinn, and they increased them in vileness,
 
7.  *     and they thought, even as you also thought, that God would never raise up anyone.
 
8.  *     And we stretched towards heaven, but we found it filled with terrible guards and meteors.
 
9.  *     We would sit there on seats to hear; but any listening now finds a meteor in wait for him.
 
10.  *     And so we know not whether evil is intended for those in the earth, or whether their Lord intends for them rectitude.
 
11.  *     And some of us are the righteous, and some of us are otherwise; we are sects differing.
 
12.  *     Indeed, we thought that we should never be able to frustrate God in the earth, neither be able to frustrate Him by flight.
 
13.  *     When we heard the guidance, we believed in it; and whosoever believes in his Lord, he shall fear neither paltriness nor vileness.
 
14.  *     And some of us have surrendered, and some of us have deviated. Those who have surrendered sought rectitude;
 
15.  *     but as for those who have deviated, they have become firewood for Gehenna!"'
 
16.  *     Would they but go straight on the way, We would give them to drink of water copious,
 
17.  *     that We might try them therein. And whosoever turns away from the Remembrance of his Lord, He will thrust him into chastisement rigorous.
 
18.  *     The places of worship belong to God; so call not, along with God, upon anyone.
 
19.  *     When the servant of God stood calling on Him, they were wellnigh upon him in swarms.
 
20.  *     Say: 'I call only upon my Lord, and I do not associate with Him anyone.
 
21.  *     Say: 'Surely I possess no power over you, either for hurt or for rectitude.'
 
22.  *     Say: 'From God shall protect me not anyone, and I shall find, apart from Him, no refuge,
 
23.  *     excepting a Deliverance from God and His Messages. And whoso rebels against God and His messenger, for him there awaits the Fire of Gehenna; therein they shall dwell forever.'
 
24.  *     Until, when they see that which they are promised, then they will know who is weaker in helpers and fewer in numbers.
 
25.  *     Say: 'I do not know whether that which you are promised is nigh, or whether my Lord will appoint for it a space;
 
26.  *     Knower He of the Unseen, and He discloses not His Unseen to anyone,
 
27.  *     save only to such a Messenger as He is well-pleased with; then He despatches before him and behind him watchers,
 
28.  *     that He may know they have delivered the Messages of their Lord; and He encompasses all that is with them, and He has numbered everything in numbers.'