[Useless, though, will be his repentance: for [as long as he was alive] he did not accept the truth, nor did he pray [for enlightenment,] 31 but, on the contrary, he gave the lie to the truth and turned away [from it,] 32 then he went to his household arrogantly. 33 Your ruin has come close, still closer. 34 Again nearer unto thee and nearer (is the doom). 35 Does man, then, think that he is to be left to himself, to go about at will? 36 Was he not a drop of fluid which gushed forth? 37 Then he was a clot of blood, then He created and formed him 38 And made of him two mates, the male and the female. 39 Does He, then, not have the power to bring back the dead to life? 40