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[1] CONSIDER the heavens and that which comes in the night!
[2] And what could make thee conceive what it is that comes in the night?
[3] It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness:
[4] [for] no human being has ever been left unguarded.
[5] LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created:
[6] he has been created out of a seminal fluid
[7] issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman].
[8] Now, verily, He [who thus creates man in the first instance] is well able to bring him back [to life]
[9] on the Day when all secrets will be laid bare,
[10] and [man] will have neither strength nor helper!
[11] Consider the heavens, ever-revolving,
[12] and the earth, bursting forth with plants!
[13] BEHOLD, this [divine writ] is indeed a word that between truth and falsehood,
[14] and is no idle tale.
[15] Behold, they [who refuse to accept it] devise many a false argument [to disprove its truth];
[16] but I shall bring all their scheming to nought.
[17] Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while.