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No nation can outstrip its term, nor yet postpone it.

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Then We sent our messengers one after another. Whenever its messenger came unto a nation they denied him; so We caused them to follow one another (to disaster) and We made them bywords. A far removal for folk who believe not!

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Then We sent Moses and his brother Aaron with Our tokens and a clear warrant

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Unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they scorned (them) and they were despotic folk.

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And they said: Shall we put faith in two mortals like ourselves, and whose folk are servile unto us ?

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So they denied them, and became of those who were destroyed.

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And We verily gave Moses the Scripture, that haply they might go aright.

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And We made the son of Mary and his mother a portent, and We gave them refuge on a height, a place of flocks and watersprings.

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O ye messengers! Eat of the good things, and do right. Lo! I am Aware of what ye do.

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And lo! this your religion is one religion and I am your Lord, so keep your duty unto Me.

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But they (mankind) have broken their religion among them into sects, each group rejoicing in its tenets.

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So leave them in their error till a time.

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Think they that in the wealth and sons wherewith We provide them

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We hasten unto them with good things ? Nay, but they perceive not.

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Lo! those who go in awe for fear of their Lord.

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And those who believe in the revelations of their Lord,

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And those who ascribe not partners unto their Lord,