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1. 42:52

   And thus We have revealed to you an inspiration of Our command [i.e., the Qur’ān]. You did not know what is the Book or [what is] faith, but We have made it a light by which We guide whom We will of Our servants. And indeed, [O Muḥammad], you guide to a straight path -

2. 42:53

   The path of Allāh, to whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Unquestionably, to Allāh do [all] matters evolve [i.e., return].

3. 43:1

   Ḥā, Meem.

4. 43:2

   By the clear Book,

5. 43:3

   Indeed, We have made it an Arabic Qur’ān that you might understand.

6. 43:4

   And indeed it is, in the Mother of the Book with Us, exalted and full of wisdom.

7. 43:5

   Then should We turn the message away, disregarding you, because you are a transgressing people?

8. 43:6

   And how many a prophet We sent among the former peoples,

9. 43:7

   But there would not come to them a prophet except that they used to ridicule him.

10. 43:8

    And We destroyed greater than them in [striking] power, and the example of the former peoples has preceded.

11. 43:9

    And if you should ask them, "Who has created the heavens and the earth?" they would surely say, "They were created by the Exalted in Might, the Knowing,"

12. 43:10

    [The one] who has made for you the earth a bed and made for you upon it roads that you might be guided