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people! Lo! I am free from all that ye associate (with Him).

79. Lo! I have turned my face toward him Who created the heavens and the earth, as one by nature upright, and I am not

of the idolaters.

80. His people argued with him. He said: Dispute ye with me concerning Allah when He hath guided me? I fear not at

all that which ye set beside Him unless my Lord willeth. My Lord includeth all things in His knowledge: Will ye not

then remember?

81. How should I fear that which ye set up beside Him, when ye fear not to set up beside Allah that for which He hath

revealed unto you no warrant? `Which of the two factions hath more right to safety?, (Answer me that) if ye have

knowledge.

82. Those who believe and obscure not their belief by wrong doing, theirs is safety; and they are rightly guided.

83. That is Our argument. We gave it unto Abraham against his folk. We raise unto degrees of wisdom whom We will.

Lo! thy Lord is Wise, Aware.

84. And We bestowed upon him Isaac and Jacob; each of them We guided; and Noah did We guide aforetime; and of

his seed (We guided) David and Solomon and Job and Joseph and Moses and Aaron. Thus do We reward the good.

85. And Zachariah and John and Jesus and Elias. Each one (of them) was of the righteous.

86. And Ishmael and Elisha and Jonah and Lot. Each one of them did We prefer above (Our) creatures,

87. With some of their forefathers and thee offspring and thee brethren; and We chose them and guided them unto a

straight path:

88. Such is the guidance of Allah wherewith He guideth whom He will of His bondmen. But if they had set up (for

worship ) aught beside Him, (all) that they did would have been vain.

89. Those are they unto whom We gave the Scripture and command and prophethood. But if these disbelieve therein,

then indeed We shall entrust it to a people who will not be disbelievers therein.

90. Those are they whom Allah guideth, so follow their guidance. Say (O Muhammad, unto mankind): I ask of you no

fee for it. Lo! it is naught but a Reminder to (His) creatures.

91. And they measure not the power of Allah its true measure when they say: Allah hath naught revealed unto a human

being. Say (unto the Jews who speak thus): Who revealed the Book which Moses brought, a light and guidance for

mankind, which ye have put on parchments which ye show, but ye hide much (thereof), and by which ye were taught that

which ye knew not yourselves nor (did) your fathers (know it)? Say: Allah. Then leave them to their play of cavilling.

92. And this is a blessed Scripture which We have revealed, confirming that which (was revealed) before it, that thou

mayst warn the Mother of Villages and those around her. Those who believe in the Hereafter believe herein, and they

are careful of their worship.

93. Who is guilty of more wrong than he who forgeth a lie against Allah, or saith : I am inspired, when he is not inspired

in aught; and who saith: I will reveal the like of that which Allah hath revealed? If thou couldst see, when the wrong

doers reach the pangs of death and the angels stretch their hands out, saying: Deliver up your souls. This day ye are

awarded doom of degradation for that ye spake concerning Allah other than the truth, and scorned, His portents.

94. Now have ye come unto Us solitary as We did create you at the first, and ye have left behind you all that We

bestowed upon you, and We behold not with you those your intercessors, of whom ye claimed that they possessed a

share in you. Now is the bond between you severed, and that which ye presumed hath failed you.

95. Lo! Allah (it is) who splitteth the grain of corn and the date stone (for sprouting) . He bringeth forth the living from

the dead, and is the bringer forth of the dead from the living. Such is Allah. How then are ye perverted?

96. He is the Cleaver of the Daybreak, and He hath appointed the night for stillness, and the sun and the moon for

reckoning. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise.

97. And He it is Who hath set for you the stars that ye may guide your course by them amid the darkness of the land

and the sea We have detailed Our revelations for a people who have knowledge.

98. And He it is Who hath produced you from a single being, and (hath given you) a habitation and a repository. We

have detailed Our revelations for a people who have understanding.

99. He it is Who sendeth down water from the sky, and therewith We bring forth buds of every kind; We bring forth

the green blade from, which we bring forth the thick clustered grain; and from the date palm, from the pollen thereof,

spring pendant bunches; and (We bring forth) gardens of grapes, and the olive and the pomegranate, alike and unlike.

Look upon the fruit thereof, when they bear fruit, and upon its ripening. Lo! herein verily are portents for a people who

believe.