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 Charles Martel and Pippin 1 1 7 Verily, those who misbelieve, it is the same to them if ye warn them or if ye warn them not, they will not believe. God has set a seal upon their hearts and on their hearing ; and on their eyes is dimness, and for them is grievous woe. There are, indeed, those among men who say, " We believe in God and in the last day"; but they do not believe. They would deceive God and those who do believe ; but they deceive only themselves and they do not perceive. In their hearts is a sickness, and God has made them still more sick, and for them is grievous woe because they lied. . . . And if ye are in doubt of what we have revealed unto our servant, then bring a chapter like it, and call your witnesses other than God if ye tell truth. But if ye do it not, and ye shall surely do it not, then fear the fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for misbelievers. But bear the glad tidings to those who believe and work righteousness, that for them are gardens beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with fruit therefrom they say, "This is what we were provided with before, and they shall be pro- vided with the like ; and there are pure wives for them therein, and they shall dwell therein for aye." . . . In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Have we not made the earth as a bed ? God's beau- And the mountains as tent-pegs ? tiful world. And created you in pairs, And made you sleep for rest, And made the night for a mantle, And made the day for bread-winning, And built above you seven firmaments, And put therein a burning lamp, And sent down water pouring from the squeezed clouds To bring forth grain and herb withal, And gardens thick with trees ? Lo ! the Day of Decision is appointed The day when there shall be a blowing of the trumpet, and ye shall come in troops,