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In this Quran We have presented every kind of description for people but man is more contentious than any other creature.

Now that guidance has come to them, what stops these people believing and asking forgiveness from their Lord before the fate of earlier peoples annihilates them or their torment confronts them?

We only send messengers to bring good news and to deliver warning, yet the disbelievers seek to refute the truth with false arguments and make fun of My messages and warnings.

Who could be more wrong than the person who is reminded of his Lord’s messages and turns his back on them, ignoring what his hands are storing up for him [in the Hereafter]? We have put covers over their hearts, so they cannot understand the Quran, and We put heaviness in their ears: although you call them to guidance [Prophet] they will never accept it.

Your Lord is the Most Forgiving, and full of mercy: if He took them to task for the wrongs they have done, He would hasten their punishment on. They have an appointed time from which they will have no escape,

[just like] the former communities We destroyed for doing wrong: We set an appointed time for their destruction.

Moses said to his servant, ‘I will not rest until I reach the place where the two seas meet, even if it takes me years!’

but when they reached the place where the two seas meet, they had forgotten all about their fish, which made its way into the sea and swam away.