The physical growth of those whom We grant a long life will be reversed. Will you then not understand? 68 And We have not taught him poetry, nor it befitteth him. This is but an admonition and a Recital luminous: 69 That it may warn him who would have life, and (that) the word may prove true against the unbelievers. 70 Have they not seen what We have created from the labor of Our own hands? We have given them cattle. 71 And that We have subjected them to their (use)? of them some do carry them and some they eat: 72 And for them in the animals are numerous different benefits and drinks; so will they not be grateful? 73 They set up deities apart from Allah, hoping that they will receive help from them. 74 Those deities can render them no help. Yet these devotees act as though they were an army in waiting for them. 75 Therefore let not their speech grieve you; surely We know what they do in secret and what they do openly. 76 Does not man see that We have created him from the small seed? Then lo! he is an open disputant. 77 And applies comparisons to Us, having forgotten his origin, and says: "Who can put life into decayed bones?" 78 (Muhammad), tell him, "He who gave them life in the first place will bring them back to life again. He has the best knowledge of all creatures. 79 "The same Who produces for you fire out of the green tree, when behold! ye kindle therewith (your own fires)! 80 And is it not possible for the One Who created the heavens and the earth to create the likes of them? It is surely possible, why not? And He is the Great Creator, the All Knowing of everything. 81 Verily, when He intends a thing, His Command is, "be", and it is! 82 So Glorified is He and Exalted above all that they associate with Him, and in Whose Hands is the dominion of all things, and to Him you shall be returned. 83