9* See what kinds of comparisons they make for thee! But they have gone astray, and never a way will they be able to find!  
| |10* Blessed is He Who, if that were His will, could give thee better (things) than those,- Gardens beneath which rivers flow; and He could give thee palaces (secure to dwell in).  
| |11* Nay they deny the Hour (of the judgment to come): but We have prepared a blazing fire for such as deny the Hour:  
| |12* When it sees them from a place far off, they will hear its fury and its ranging sigh.  
| |13* And when they are cast, bound together into a constricted place therein, they will plead for destruction there and then!  
| |14* "This day plead not for a single destruction: plead for destruction oft- repeated!"  
| |15* Say: "Is that best, or the eternal Garden, promised to the righteous? For them, that is a reward as well as a final abode.  
| |16* "For them there will be therein all that they wish for: they will dwell (there) for aye: a promise binding upon thy Lord."  
| |17* The day He will gather them together as well as those whom they worship besides Allah, He will ask: "Was it ye who led these My servants astray, or did they stray from the Path themselves?"  
| |18* They will say: "Glory to Thee! Not meet was it for us that we should take for protectors others besides Thee: but Thou didst bestow, on them and their fathers, good things (in life), until they forgot the Message: for they were a people destroyed."  
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