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ⅭⅢ, 3-ⅭⅤ, 5 those who believe and do right, and bid each other be true, and bid each other be patient. 

 . (ⅭⅣ. Mecca.)

In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.

Woe to every slanderous backbiter, who collects wealth and counts it.

He thinks that his wealth can immortalize him.

Not so! he shall be hurled into El ʿHutamah !

And what shall make thee understand what El ʿHutamah is ? — the fire of God kindled; which rises above the hearts. Verily, it is an archway over them on long-drawn columns. 

 . (ⅭⅤ. Mecca.)

In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.

Hast thou not seen what thy Lord did with the fellows of the elephant ?

Did He not make their stratagem lead them astray, and send down on them birds in flocks, to throw down on them stones of baked clay, and make them like blades of herbage eaten down ?