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Translation of page 344

1. 23:28

   And when you have boarded the ship, you and those with you, then say, 'Praise to Allāh who has saved us from the wrongdoing people.'

2. 23:29

   And say, 'My Lord, let me land at a blessed landing place, and You are the best to accommodate [us].'"

3. 23:30

   Indeed in that are signs, and indeed, We are ever testing [Our servants].

4. 23:31

   Then We produced after them a generation of others.

5. 23:32

   And We sent among them a messenger from themselves, [saying], "Worship Allāh; you have no deity other than Him; then will you not fear Him?"

6. 23:33

   And the eminent among his people who disbelieved and denied the meeting of the Hereafter while We had given them luxury in the worldly life said, "This is not but a man like yourselves. He eats of that from which you eat and drinks of what you drink.

7. 23:34

   And if you should obey a man like yourselves, indeed, you would then be losers.

8. 23:35

   Does he promise you that when you have died and become dust and bones that you will be brought forth [once more]?

9. 23:36

   How far, how far, is that which you are promised.

10. 23:37

    It [i.e., life] is not but our worldly life - we die and live, but we will not be resurrected.

11. 23:38

    He is not but a man who has invented a lie about Allāh, and we will not believe him."

12. 23:39

    He said, "My Lord, support me because they have denied me."

13. 23:40

    [Allāh] said, "After a little, they will surely become regretful."

14. 23:41

    So the shriek seized them in truth, and We made them as [plant] stubble. Then away with the wrongdoing people.

15. 23:42

    Then We produced after them other generations.