The physical growth of those whom We grant a long life will be reversed. Will you then not understand? 68 We have not instructed the (Prophet) in Poetry, nor is it meet for him: this is no less than a Message and a Qur'an making things clear: 69 by which he may warn those who are living and may let the words of God come true against the unbelievers. 70 Did they not see that We have created animals for them from Our handiwork, so they are their owners? 71 We have subdued them to them, and some of them they ride, and some they eat; 72 Benefits and (divers) drinks have they from them. Will they not then give thanks? 73 And they have appointed Gods other than Allah, that perhaps they may be helped! 74 Instead, the disbelievers will be brought into the presence of God as the soldiers of the idols. 75 So let not their speech grieve thee (O Muhammad). Lo! We know what they conceal and what proclaim. 76 Has the human not seen how We created him from a drop (of sperm)? Yet he is a clear opponent. 77 And he invents an example for Us, while forgetting his own creation, saying, “Who is such that can revive the bones when they have completely rotted away?” 78 Say, "He who brought them into being in the first instance will give them life again: He has knowledge of every type of creation: 79 “The One Who has created for you fire from the green tree, so you kindle from it.” 80 Is He who created the heavens and the earth unable to create their like? Yes, indeed, He is the Creator, the Knower. 81 And His only task when He intends a thing is to command it, “Be” – and it thereupon happens! 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