Whomsoever We grant a long life, We reverse him in his constitution. Do they still not understand? 68 And We have not taught him (Muhammad) poetry, nor is it meet for him. This is naught else than a Reminder and a Lecture making plain, 69 To warn whosoever liveth, and that the word may be fulfilled against the disbelievers. 70 Do they not see Our handiwork: We created for them cattle which they own? 71 And have subdued them unto them, so that some of them they have for riding, some for food? 72 they also have other uses in them and drinks. What, will they not give thanks! 73 But [nay,] they take to worshipping deities other than God, [hoping] to be succoured [by them, and not knowing that] 74 They (the appointed Gods) cannot help them; and they and their armies will come (to Us), as captives. 75 So do not let their sayings grieve you. Surely, We have knowledge of what they hide and all that they reveal. 76 Does not man see We created him from a drop of semen? Even then he becomes an open contender, 77 And he strikes out a likeness for Us and forgets his own creation. Says he: Who will give life to the bones when they are rotten? 78 Say thou: He shall quicken them Who brought them forth for the first time, and He is of every kind of creation the Knower! 79 "The same Who produces for you fire out of the green tree, when behold! ye kindle therewith (your own 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 When He wills a thing He has only to say: "Be," and it is. 82 Therefore glory be to Him in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things, and to Him you shall be brought back. 83