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Some of them look at you: but can you guide the blind if they will not see?

God does not wrong people at all- it is they who wrong themselves.

On the Day He gathers them together, it will be as if they have stayed [in the world] no longer than a single hour, and they will recognize one another. Those who denied the meeting with God will be the losers, for they did not follow the right guidance.

Whether We let you [Prophet] see some of the punishment We have threatened them with, or cause you to die [first], they will return to Us: God is witness to what they do.

Every community is sent a mes-senger, and when their messenger comes, they will be judged justly; they will not be wronged.

They ask, ‘When will this promise be fulfilled, if what you say is true?’

Say [Prophet], ‘I cannot control any harm or benefit that comes to me, except as God wills. There is an appointed term for every community, and when it is reached they can neither delay nor hasten it, even for a moment.’

Say, ‘Think: if His punishment were to come to you, during the night or day, what part of it would the guilty wish to hasten?

Will you believe in it, when it actually happens?’ It will be said, ‘Now [you believe], when [before] you sought to hasten it?’

It will be said to the evildoers, ‘Taste lasting punishment. Why should you be rewarded for anything but what you did?’

They ask you [Prophet], ‘Is it true?’ Say, ‘Yes, by my Lord, it is true, and you cannot escape it.’