Whenever they bring you an argument, We come to you with the right refutation and the best explanation.
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Those who will be dragged into Hell on their faces will be in the worst place, and are ˹now˺ farthest from the ˹Right˺ Way.
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We certainly gave Moses the Book and appointed his brother Aaron as his helper.
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We had ordered ˹them˺, “Go to the people who would deny Our signs.” Then We annihilated the deniers entirely.
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And when the people of Noah rejected the messengers,1 We drowned them, making them an example to humanity. And We have prepared a painful punishment for the wrongdoers.
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Also ˹We destroyed˺ ’Ȃd, Thamûd, and the people of the Water-pit,1 as well as many peoples in between.
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For each We set forth ˹various˺ lessons, and We ultimately destroyed each.
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They have certainly passed by the city ˹of Sodom˺, which had been showered with a dreadful rain ˹of stones˺. Have they not seen its ruins? But they do not expect to be resurrected.
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When they see you ˹O Prophet˺, they only make fun of you, ˹saying,˺ “Is this the one that Allah has sent as a messenger?
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He would have almost tricked us away from our gods, had we not been so devoted to them.” ˹But˺ soon they will know, when they face the punishment, who is far astray from the ˹Right˺ Way.
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Have you seen ˹O Prophet˺ the one who has taken their own desires as their god? Will you then be a keeper over them?
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