Qãf. By the glorious Quran!
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˹All will be resurrected,˺ yet the deniers are astonished that a warner has come to them from among themselves ˹warning of resurrection˺. So the disbelievers say, “This is an astonishing thing!
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˹Will we be returned to life,˺ when we are dead and reduced to dust? Such a return is impossible.”
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We certainly know what the earth consumes of them ˹after their death˺, and with us is a well-preserved Record.1
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In fact, they reject the truth when it has come to them, so they are in a confused state.1
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Have they not then looked at the sky above them: how We built it and adorned it ˹with stars˺, leaving it flawless?
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As for the earth, We spread it out and placed upon it firm mountains, and produced in it every type of pleasant plant—
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˹all as˺ an insight and a reminder to every servant who turns ˹to Allah˺.
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And We send down blessed rain from the sky, bringing forth gardens and grains for harvest,
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and towering palm trees ˹loaded˺ with clustered fruit,
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˹as˺ a provision for ˹Our˺ servants. And with this ˹rain˺ We revive a lifeless land. Similar is the emergence ˹from the graves˺.
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Before them, the people of Noah denied ˹the truth,˺ as did the people of the Water-pit,1 Thamûd,
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’Ȃd, Pharaoh, the kinfolk of Lot,
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the residents of the Forest,1 and the people of Tubba’.2 Each rejected ˹their˺ messenger, so My warning was fulfilled.
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Were We incapable of creating ˹them˺ the first time? In fact, they are in doubt about ˹their˺ re-creation.
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