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Alif Lam Ra. Those are the signs of the Book and of a manifest Koran. |
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Perchance the unbelievers will wish that they had surrendered: |
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leave them to eat, and to take their joy, and to be bemused by hope; certainly they will soon know! |
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Never a city have We destroyed, but it had a known decree, |
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and no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back. |
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