who sends water down from the sky in due measure––We resurrect dead land with it, and likewise you will be resurrected from the grave––

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who created every kind of thing, who gave you ships and animals to ride on

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so that you may remember your Lord’s grace when you are seated on them and say, ‘Glory be to Him who has given us control over this; we could not have done it by ourselves

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Truly it is to our Lord that we are returning.’

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Yet they assign some of His own servants to Him as offspring!Man is clearly ungrateful

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Has He taken daughters for Himself and favoured you with sons

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When one of them is given news of the birth of a daughter, such as he so readily ascribes to the Lord of Mercy, his face grows dark and he is filled with gloom

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‘Someone who is brought up amongst trinkets, who cannot put together a clear argument?’

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They consider the angels- God’s servants- to be female. Did they witness their creation? Their claim will be put on record and they will be questioned about it

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They say, ‘If the Lord of Mercy had willed it, we would not have worshipped them,’ but they do not know that- they are only guessing

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or have We perhaps given them a book before this one, to which they hold fast

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No indeed! They say, ‘We saw our fathers following this tradition; we are guided by their footsteps.’

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