The Ornaments of Gold
Surah
Az-Zukhruf
43

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Ḥâ-Mĩm.

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By the clear Book!

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Certainly, We have made it a Quran in Arabic so perhaps you will understand.

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And indeed, it is—in the Master Record1 with Us—highly esteemed, rich in wisdom.

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Should We then turn the ˹Quranic˺ Reminder away from you ˹simply˺ because you have been a transgressing people?

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˹Imagine˺ how many prophets We sent to those ˹destroyed˺ before!

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But no prophet ever came to them without being mocked.

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So We destroyed those who were far mightier than these ˹Meccans˺. The examples of ˹their˺ predecessors have ˹already˺ been related.1 

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If you ask them ˹O Prophet˺ who created the heavens and the earth, they will certainly say, “The Almighty, All-Knowing did.”

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˹He is the One˺ Who has laid out the earth for you, and set in it pathways for you so that you may find your way.

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