9* In the end We fulfilled to them Our Promise, and We saved them and those whom We willed, but We destroyed those who transgressed beyond bounds.  
| |10* We have revealed for you (O men!) a book in which will give you eminence. Will ye not then understand?  
| |11* How many were the towns We utterly destroyed because of their iniquities, setting up in their places other peoples?  
| |12* Yet, when they felt Our Punishment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it.  
| |13* Flee not, but return to the good things of this life which were given you, and to your homes in order that ye may be called to account.  
| |14* They said: "Ah! Woe to us! We were indeed wrong-doers!"  
| |15* And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is mown, as ashes silent and quenched.  
| |16* Not for (idle) sport did We create the heavens and the earth and all that is between!  
| |17* If it had been Our wish to take (just) a pastime, We should surely have taken it from the things nearest to Us, if We would do (such a thing)!  
| |18* Nay, We hurl the Truth against falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and behold, falsehood doth perish! Ah! Woe be to you for the (false) things ye ascribe (to Us).  
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