1 . Alif . Lam . Ra . These are verses of the Scripture and a plain Reading .
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2 . It may be that those who disbelieve wish ardently that they were Muslims .
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3 . Let them eat and enjoy life , and let ( false ) hope beguile them . They will come to know!
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4 . And We destroyed no township but there was a known decree for it .
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5 . No nation can outstrip its term nor can they lag behind .
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6 . And they say : O thou unto whom the Reminder is revealed , lo! thou art indeed a madman!
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7 . Why bringest thou not angels unto Us , if thou art of the truthful?
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8 . We send not down the angels save with the Fact , and that case ( the disbelievers ) would not be tolerated .
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9 . Lo! We , even We , reveal the Reminder , and lo! We verily are it ' s Guardian .
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10 . We verily sent ( messengers ) before thee among the factions of the men of old .
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11 . And never came there unto them a messenger but they did mock him .
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12 . Thus do We make it traverse the hearts of the guilty :
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13 . They believe not therein , though the example of the men of old hath gone before .
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14 . And even if We opened unto them a Gate of Heaven and they kept mounting through it .
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15 . They would say : Our sight is wrong nay , but we are folk bewitched .
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16 . And verily in the heaven We have set mansions of the stars , and We have beautified it for beholders .
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17 . And We have guarded it from every outcast devil ,
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18 . Save him who stealeth the hearing , and them doth a clear flame pursue .
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19 . And the earth have We spread out , and placed therein firm hills , and caused each seemly thing to grow therein .
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20 . And We have given unto you livelihoods therein , and unto those for whom ye provide not .
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