WHAT, THEN, is amiss with such as are bent on denying the truth, that they run about confusedly to and fro before thee, 36 [coming upon thee] from the right and from the left, in crowds? 37 Coveteth every man of them, that he shall enter the Garden of Delight? 38 Never so. We have created them from what they know. 39 But nay! I call to witness [Our being] the Sustainer of all the points of sunrise and sunset: verily, well able are We 40 To replace them by (others) better than them. And we are not to be outrun. 41 Then leave them alone to plunge and play until they encounter that day of theirs which they are promised, 42 The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening. 43 with downcast eyes, with ignominy overwhelming them: that Day which they were promised again and again 44