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Give full measure, and cause no loss ˹to others˺.

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Weigh with an even balance,

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and do not defraud people of their property. Nor go about spreading corruption in the land.

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And fear the One Who created you and ˹all˺ earlier peoples.”

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They replied, “You are simply bewitched!

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Also, you are only a human being like us, and we think you are indeed a liar.

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So cause ˹deadly˺ pieces of the sky to fall upon us, if what you say is true.”

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Shu’aib responded, “My Lord knows best whatever you do.”

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So they rejected him, and ˹so˺ were overtaken by the torment of the day of the ˹deadly˺ cloud.1 That was really a torment of a tremendous day.

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Surely in this is a sign. Yet most of them would not believe.

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