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 To warn the living*, and to prove the Word against disbelievers. (Only the believers are deemed alive in Allah’s sight.) 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 Whom We made subservient to them so that some of them they ride and some they eat? 72 other uses also they have in them, and beverages. What, will they not be thankful? 73 But they have taken besides Allah [false] deities that perhaps they would be helped. 74 (But) they shall not be able to assist them, and they shall be a host brought up before them. 75 So let not their speech grieve thee (O Muhammad). Lo! We know what they conceal and what proclaim. 76 And did not man see that We have created him from a drop of semen? Yet he is an open quarreller! 77 And he has struck for Us a parable, and forgotten his own creation. He asks: 'Who will quicken the bones after they have decayed' 78 Say: "He who created you the first time. He has knowledge of every creation, 79 who has made for you out of the green tree fire and lo, from it you kindle.' 80 Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the like of them? Aye, that He is! for He is the All-Wise Creator, 81 His Being alone is such that when He wills a thing to be, He but says unto it, "Be" — and it is. 82 Wherefore hallowed be He in whose hand is the governance of everything, and unto whom ye shall be returned. 83