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32. Or do their minds¹⁵⁵⁸ command them to [say] this, or are they a transgressing people?

33. Or do they say, "He has made it up"? Rather, they do not believe.

34. Then let them produce a statement like it, if they should be truthful.

35. Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves]?

36. Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain.

37. Or have they the depositories [containing the provision] of your Lord? Or are they the controllers [of them]?

38. Or have they a stairway [into the heaven] upon which they listen? Then let their listener produce a clear authority [i.e., proof].

39. Or has He daughters while you have sons?

40. Or do you, [O Muḥammad], ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

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

42. Or do they intend a plan? But those who disbelieve - they are the object of a plan.

43. Or have they a deity other than Allāh? Exalted is Allāh above whatever they associate with Him.

44. And if they were to see a fragment from the sky falling,¹⁵⁵⁹ they would say, "[It is merely] clouds heaped up."

45. So leave them until they meet their Day in which they will be struck insensible -

46. The Day their plan will not avail them at all, nor will they be helped.

47. And indeed, for those who have wronged is a punishment¹⁵⁶⁰ before that, but most of them do not know.

48. And be patient, [O Muḥammad], for the decision of your Lord, for indeed, you are in Our eyes [i.e., sight]. And exalt [Allāh] with praise of your Lord when you arise

49. And in a part of the night exalt Him and after [the setting of] the stars.