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He said: "O my People! I am to you a Warner, clear and open:
"But my call only increases (their) flight (from the Right).
"And every time I have called to them, that Thou mightest forgive them, they have (only) thrust their fingers into their ears, covered themselves up with their garments, grown obstinate, and given themselves up to arrogance.
"'What is the matter with you, that ye place not your hope for kindness and long-suffering in Allah,-
"'Seeing that it is He that has created you in diverse stages?
"'And made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun as a (Glorious) Lamp?
"'And Allah has produced you from the earth growing (gradually),
"'And in the End He will return you into the (earth), and raise you forth (again at the Resurrection)?
"'And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet (spread out),
"And they have devised a tremendous Plot.
"They have already misled many; and grant Thou no increase to the wrong-doers but in straying (from their mark)."
Because of their sins they were drowned (in the flood), and were made to enter the Fire (of Punishment): and they found- in lieu of Allah- none to help them.
"For, if Thou dost leave (any of) them, they will but mislead Thy devotees, and they will breed none but wicked ungrateful ones.