To whoever We give a long life We make him stoop. Do they not understand? 68 AND [thus it is:] We have not imparted to this [Prophet the gift of] poetry, nor would [poetry] have suited this [message]: it is but a reminder and a [divine] discourse, clear in itself and clearly showing the truth, 69 to the end that it may warn everyone who is alive [of heart,] and that the word [of God] may bear witness against all who deny the truth. 70 Do they not see that We have created cattle for them, out of what Our hands have wrought, so they are their masters? 71 And We have subjected them to them, so some of them they have to ride upon, and some of them they eat. 72 And for them therein are [other] benefits and drinks, so will they not be grateful? 73 Yet they have taken, apart from God, gods; haply they might be helped. 74 They have not the power to help them: but they will be brought up (before Our Judgment-seat) as a troop (to be condemned). 75 Let not their words grieve you. Surely We know all things about them, what they conceal and what they reveal. 76 Beholdest not man that We have created him from a sperm? Yet lo! he is a manifest disputer? 77 And he propoundeth for us a similitude, and forgetteth his creation; he saith: who shall quicken the bones when they are decayed? 78 Say: 'He will quicken them who originated them the first time; He has knowledge of every creation; 79 [It is] He who made for you from the green tree, fire, and then from it you ignite. 80 How can He who created the heavens and the earth not be able to create others like them? Why not? He is the real creator all-knowing. 81 When He wills a thing He has only to say: "Be," and it is. 82 So all glory to Him who holds all power over everything, to whom you will go back in the end. 83