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Alif Lam Mim

This scripture, free from all doubt, has been sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.

Yet they say, ‘Muhammad has made it up.’ No indeed! It is the Truth from your Lord for you [Prophet], to warn a people who have had no one to warn them before, so that they may be guided.

It is God who created the heavens and the earth and everything between them in six Days. Then He established Himself on the Throne. You [people] have no one but Him to protect you and no one to intercede for you, so why do you not take heed?

He runs everything, from the heavens to the earth, and everything will ascend to Him in the end, on a Day that will measure a thousand years in your reckoning.

Such is He who knows all that is unseen as well as what is seen, the Almighty, the Merciful,

who gave everything its perfect form. He first created man from clay,

then made his descendants from an extract of underrated fluid.

Then He moulded him; He breathed from His Spirit into him; He gave you hearing, sight, and minds. How seldom you are grateful!

They say, ‘What? When we have disappeared into the earth, shall we really be created anew?’ In fact, they deny the meeting with their Lord.

Say, ‘The Angel of Death put in charge of you will reclaim you, and then you will be brought back to your Lord.’