[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 on the contrary, he gave the lie to the Truth and turned his back upon it, 32 Then he strutted back to his people. 33 Nearer to thee and nearer 34 then nearer to thee and nearer! 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 ejaculated semen, 37 then he became a clot, and then Allah made it into a living body and proportioned its parts, 38 and fashioned out of it the two sexes, the male and the female? 39 Is not He (Allah Who does that), Able to give life to the dead? (Yes! He is Able to do all things). 40