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[1]Qaf. CONSIDER this sublime Qur’an!

[2]But nay - they deem it strange that a warner should have come unto them from their own midst; and so these deniers of the truth are saying, “A strange thing is this!

[3]Why - [how could we be resurrected] after we have died and become mere dust? Such a return seems far-fetched indeed!”

[4]Well do We know how the earth consumes their bodies, for with Us is a record unfailing.

[5]Nay, but they [who refuse to believe in resurrection] have been wont to give the lie to this truth whenever it was proffered to them; and so they are in a state of confusion.

[6]Do they not look at the sky above them - how We have built it and made it beautiful and free of all faults?

[7]And the earth - We have spread it wide, and set upon it mountains firm, and caused it to bring forth plants of all beauteous kinds,

[8]thus offering an insight and a reminder unto every human being who willingly turns unto God.

[9]And We send down from the skies water rich in blessings, and cause thereby gardens to grow, and fields of grain,

[10]and tall palm-trees with their thickly-clustered dates,