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Yet they will continue in their disbelief, even if We send a [scorching] wind and they see their crops turn yellow.

You [Prophet] cannot make the dead hear and you cannot make the deaf hear your call when they turn their backs and leave;

you cannot lead the blind out of their error: the only ones you can make hear you are those who believe in Our revelations and devote themselves [to Us].

It is God who creates you weak, then gives you strength, then weakness after strength, together with your grey hair: He creates what He will; He is the All Knowing, the All Powerful.

On the Day the Hour comes, the guilty will swear they lingered no more than an hour- they have always been deluded-

but those endowed with knowledge and faith will say, ‘In accordance with God’s decree, you actually lingered till the Day of Resurrection: this is the Day of Resurrection, yet you did not know.’

On that Day the evildoers’ excuses will be of no use to them: they will not be allowed to make amends.

In this Quran We have set every kind of illustration before people, yet if you [Prophet] brought them a miracle, the disbelievers would still say, ‘You [prophets] deal only in falsehood.’

In this way God seals the hearts of those who do not know,

so be patient, for God’s promise is true: do not let those with no firm beliefs discourage you.