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They will say: "Our Lord! whoever brought this upon us,- Add to him a double Penalty in the Fire!"

And they will say: "What has happened to us that we see not men whom we used to number among the bad ones?

"Did we treat them (as such) in ridicule, or have (our) eyes failed to perceive them?"

Truly that is just and fitting,- the mutual recriminations of the People of the Fire!

Say: "Truly am I a Warner: no god is there but the one Allah, Supreme and Irresistible,-

"The Lord of the heavens and the earth, and all between,- Exalted in Might, able to enforce His Will, forgiving again and again."

Say: "That is a Message Supreme (above all),-

"From which ye do turn away!

"No knowledge have I of the Chiefs on high, when they discuss (matters) among themselves.

´Only this has been revealed to me: that I am to give warning plainly and publicly."

Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create man from clay:

"When I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and breathed into him of My spirit, fall ye down in obeisance unto him."

So the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together:

Not so Iblis: he was haughty, and became one of those who reject Faith.

(Allah) said: "O Iblis! What prevents thee from prostrating thyself to one whom I have created with my hands? Art thou haughty? Or art thou one of the high (and mighty) ones?"

(Iblis) said: "I am better than he: thou createdst me from fire, and him thou createdst from clay."

(Allah) said: "Then get thee out from here: for thou art rejected, accursed.

"And My curse shall be on thee till the Day of Judgment."

(Iblis) said: "O my Lord! Give me then respite till the Day the (dead) are raised."

(Allah) said: "Respite then is granted thee-