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 XIV, 40-47- THE CHAPTER OF ABRAHAM. 243

[40] * O our Lord ! verily, I have made some of my seed dwell in a valley without corn, by thy Sacred House O our Lord ! let them be steadfast in prayer and make the hearts of men yearn towards them, and provide them with fruits, haply they may give thanks.

and what we publish ; for naught is hid from God in the earth or in the sky. Praise to God who hath bestowed on me, notwithstanding my old age, Ishmael and Isaac! — verily, my Lord surely hears prayer.
 * O our Lord ! verily, Thou knowest what we hide

1 O my Lord ! make me steadfast in prayer, and of my seed likewise ! O our Lord ! and accept my prayer ! O our Lord ! pardon me and my parents and the believers on the reckoning day!'

So think not God careless of what the unjust do ; He only respites them until the day on which all eyes shall stare!

Hurrying on, raising up their heads, with their looks not turned back to them 2, and their hearts void ; and warn men of the day when the torment shall come!

[45] And those who have done wrong shall say, ' O our Lord ! respite us until an appointed time nigh at hand, and we will respond to Thy call, and follow the apostles!' — 'What! did ye not swear before, ye should have no decline ?'

And ye dwelt in the dwellings of those who had wronged themselves ; and it was made plain to you how we did with them ; and we struck out parables

1 The Kaabah at Mecca.

8 I.e. with their looks fixed straight in front of them through terror.

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