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124. But he who turneth away from remembrance of Me, his will be a narrow life, and I shall bring him blind to the

assembly on the Day of Resurrection.

125. He will say: My Lord! Wherefore hast Thou gathered me (hither) blind, when I was wont to see?

126. He will say: So (it must be). Our revelations came unto thee but thou didst forget them. In like manner thou art

forgotten this Day.

127. Thus do We reward him who is prodigal and believeth not the revelations of his Lord; and verily the doom of the

Hereafter will be sterner and more lasting.

128. Is it not a guidance for them (to know) how many a generation We destroyed before them, amid whose dwellings

they walk? Lo! therein verily are signs for men of thought.

129. And but for a decree that had already gone forth from thy Lord, and a term already fixed, the judgment would

(have) been inevitable (in this world).

130. Therefor (O Muhammad), bear with what they say, and celebrate the praises of thy Lord ere the rising of the sun

and ere the going down thereof. And glorify Him some hours of the night and at the two ends of the day, that thou mayst

find acceptance.

131. And strain not thine eyes toward that which We cause some wedded pairs among them to enjoy, the flower of the

life of the world, that We may try them thereby. The provision of thy Lord is better and more lasting.

132. And enjoin upon thy people worship, and be constant therein. We ask not of thee a provision: We provide for thee.

And the sequel is for righteousness.

133. And they say: If only he would bring us a miracle from his Lord! Hath there not come unto them the proof of what

is in the former Scriptures?

134. And if We had destroyed them with some punishment before it, they would assuredly have said: Our Lord! If only

Thou hadst sent unto us a messenger, so that we might have followed Thy revelations before we were (thus) humbled

and disgraced!

135. Say: Each is awaiting; so await ye! Ye will come to know who are the owners of the path of equity, and who is

right.

Surah 21. Al-Anbiyaa

1. Their reckoning draweth nigh for mankind, while they turn away in heedlessness.

2. Never cometh there unto them a new reminder from their Lord but they listen to it while they play.

3. With hearts preoccupied. And they confer in secret The wrong doers say: Is this other than a mortal like you? Will

ye then succumb to magic when ye see (it)?

4. He saith: My Lord knoweth what is spoken in the heaven and the earth. He is the Hearer, the Knower.

5. Nay, say they, (these are but) muddled dreams; nay, he hath but invented it; nay, he is but a poet. Let him bring us a

portent even as those of old (who were God's messengers) were sent (with portents).

6. Not a township believed of those which We destroyed before them (though We sent them portents): would they then

believe?

7. And We sent not (as Our messengers) before thee other than men whom We inspired. Ask the followers of the

Reminder if ye know not?

8. We gave them not bodies that would not eat food, nor were they immortals.

9. Then We fulfilled the promise unto them. So We delivered them and whom We would, and We destroyed the

prodigals.

10. Now We have revealed unto you a Scripture wherein is your Reminder. Have ye then no sense?

11. How many a community that dealt unjustly have We shattered, and raised up after them another folk!

12. And, when they felt Our might, behold them fleeing from it!

13. (But it was said unto them): Flee not, but return to that (existence) which emasculated you and to your dwellings,

that ye may be questioned.

14. They cried: Alas for us! Lo! we were wrongdoers.

15. And this their crying ceased not till We made them as reaped corn, extinct.

16. We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between them in play.

17. If We had wished to find a pastime, We could have found it in Our presence if We ever did.