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42 Said he, ‘ Then get thee gone ; verily, it shall be thine in life to say, “ Touch me not !” and, verily, for thee there is a threat which thou shalt surely never alter. But look at thy god to which thou wert just now devout ; we will surely burn it, and then we will scatter it in scattered pieces in the sea.

‘ Your God is only God who, — there is no god but He, — He embraceth everything in His knowledge.’

Thus do we narrate to thee the history of what has gone before, and we have brought thee a reminder from us.

Whoso turns therefrom, verily, he shall bear on the resurrection day a burden : — for them to bear for aye, and evil for them on the resurrection day will it be to bear.

On the day when the trumpet shall be blown, and we will gather the sinners in that day blue-eyed.

They shall whisper to each other, ‘ Ye have only tarried ten days.’ We know best what they say, when the most exemplary of them in his way shall say, ‘ Ye have only tarried a day.’

They will ask thee about the mountains ;