89* "We should indeed forge a lie against Allah, if we returned to your religion after Allah hath rescued us therefrom; nor could we by any manner of means return thereto unless it be as in the will of Allah, Our Lord. Our Lord comprehend all things in His knowledge. In Allah is our trust. Our Lord! decide Thou between us and our people in truth, for Thou art the best to decide."  
| |90* The leaders, the unbelievers among his people, said: "If ye follow Shuib, be sure then ye are ruined!"  
| |91* But the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes before the morning!  
| |92* The men who reject Shuib became as if they had never been in the homes where they had flourished: the men who rejected Shuib - it was they who were ruined!  
| |93* So Shuib left them, saying: "O my people! I did indeed convey to you the Messages for which I was sent by my Lord: I gave you good counsel, but how shall I lament over a people who refuse to believe!"  
| |94* Whenever We sent a prophet to a town, We took up its people in suffering and adversity, in order that they might call in humility.  
| |95* Then We changed their suffering into prosperity, until they grew and multiplied, and began to say: "Our fathers (too) were touched by suffering and affluence" ... Behold! We called them to account of a sudden, while they realized not (their peril).  
| |96* If the people of the towns had but believed and feared Allah, We should indeed have opened out to them (All kinds of) blessings from heaven and earth; but they rejected (the truth), and We brought them to book for their misdeeds.  
| |97* Did the people of the towns feel secure against the coming of Our wrath by night while they were asleep?  
| |98* Or else did they feel secure against its coming in broad daylight while they played about (care-free)?  
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