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Translation of page 566

1. 68:43

   Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. And they used to be invited to prostration while they were sound.

2. 68:44

   So leave Me, [O Muḥammad], with [the matter of] whoever denies this statement [i.e., the Qur’ān]. We will progressively lead them [to punishment] from where they do not know.

3. 68:45

   And I will give them time. Indeed, My plan is firm.

4. 68:46

   Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

5. 68:47

   Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?

6. 68:48

   Then be patient for the decision of your Lord, [O Muḥammad], and be not like the companion of the fish [i.e., Jonah] when he called out while he was distressed.

7. 68:49

   If not that a favor [i.e., mercy] from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured.

8. 68:50

   And his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous.

9. 68:51

   And indeed, those who disbelieve would almost make you slip with their eyes [i.e., looks] when they hear the message, and they say, "Indeed, he is mad."

10. 68:52

    But it is not except a reminder to the worlds.

11. 69:1

    The Inevitable Reality -

12. 69:2

    What is the Inevitable Reality?

13. 69:3

    And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?

14. 69:4

    Thamūd and ʿAad denied the Striking Calamity [i.e., the Resurrection].

15. 69:5

    So as for Thamūd, they were destroyed by the overpowering [blast].

16. 69:6

    And as for ʿAad, they were destroyed by a screaming, violent wind

17. 69:7

    Which He [i.e., Allāh] imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

18. 69:8

    Then do you see of them any remains?