Surat Al-Ĥijr (The Rocky Tract) - سورة الحجر

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And We had certainly sent [messengers] before you, [O Muhammad], among the sects of the former peoples.

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And no messenger would come to them except that they ridiculed him.

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Thus do We insert denial into the hearts of the criminals.

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They will not believe in it, while there has already occurred the precedent of the former peoples.

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And [even] if We opened to them a gate from the heaven and they continued therein to ascend,

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They would say, "Our eyes have only been dazzled. Rather, we are a people affected by magic."

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And We have placed within the heaven great stars and have beautified it for the observers.