Ever closer to people draws their reckoning, while they turn away, heedless

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Whenever any fresh revelation comes to them from their Lord, they listen to it playfully

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with frivolous hearts. The evildoers conferred in secret: ‘Is this man anything but a mortal like yourselves? Are you going to fall under his spell with your eyes wide open?’

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He said, ‘My Lord knows everything that is said in the heavens and the earth: He is the All Hearing, the All Knowing.’

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Some say, ‘Muddled dreams’; others, ‘He made it up’; yet others, ‘He is just a poet, let him show us a sign as previous messengers did.’

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But of the communities We destroyed before them not a single one believed. Will these now believe

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And even before your time [Prophet], all the messengers We sent were only men We inspired–– if you [disbelievers] do not know, ask people who know the Scripture––

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We did not give them bodies that ate no food, nor were they immortal

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We fulfilled Our promise to them in the end: We saved them and those We wished to save, and We destroyed those who exceeded all bounds

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And now We have sent down to you [people] a Scripture to remind you. Will you not use your reason

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