In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. 
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| |1* Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning: yet they heed not and they turn away.  
| |2* Never comes (aught) to them of a renewed Message from their Lord, but they listen to it as in jest,-  
| |3* Their hearts toying as with trifles. The wrong-doers conceal their private counsels, (saying), "Is this (one) more than a man like yourselves? Will ye go to witchcraft with your eyes open?"  
| |4* Say: "My Lord knoweth (every) word (spoken) in the heavens and on earth: He is the One that heareth and knoweth (all things)."  
| |5* "Nay," they say, "(these are) medleys of dream! - Nay, he forged it! - Nay, he is (but) a poet! Let him then bring us a Sign like the ones that were sent to (Prophets) of old!"  
| |6* (As to those) before them, not one of the towns which We destroyed believed: will these believe?  
| |7* Before thee, also, the messengers We sent were but men, to whom We granted inspiration: If ye know this not, ask of those who possess the Message.  
| |8* Nor did We give them bodies that ate no food, nor were they immortals.  
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