If We extend anyone's life, We reverse his development. Can they not use their reason? 68 And We have not taught him poetry, nor is it meet for him; it is nothing but a reminder and a plain Quran, 69 that he may warn whosoever is living, and that the Word may be realized against the unbelievers. 70 Have they not seen how We have created for them the cattle they master with Our Hands? 71 Whom We made subservient to them so that some of them they ride and some they eat? 72 And therein they have advantages and drinks; will they not then be grateful? 73 And yet they have taken gods, other than Allah, so that they might be helped! 74 They are not able to help them, and they [themselves] are for them soldiers in attendance. 75 Let not their words grieve you. Surely We know all things about them, what they conceal and what they reveal. 76 IS MAN, then, not aware that it is We who create him out of a [mere] drop of sperm - whereupon, lo! he shows himself endowed with the power to think and to argue? 77 He questions Our Resurrection of him, but has forgotten his own creation. He has said, "Who will give life to the bones which have become ashes?" 78 Say: “He Who first brought them into being will quicken them; He knows well about every kind of creation; 79 He has created fire for you out of the green tree from which you can kindle other fires. 80 "Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like thereof?" - Yea, indeed! for He is the Creator Supreme, of skill and knowledge (infinite)! 81 His Being alone is such that when He wills a thing to be, He but says unto it, "Be" — and it is. 82 Therefore Purity is to Him in Whose Hand* is the control over all things and it is towards Him that you will be returned. (Used as a metaphor to mean Power). 83