But [let them always remember that] if We lengthen a human being's days, We also cause him to decline in his powers [when he grows old]: will they not, then, use their reason? 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 by which he may warn those who are living and may let the words of God come true against the unbelievers. 70 Do they not see that, among the things which Our hands have fashioned, We have created for them cattle of which they are the masters, 71 And We have subdued them unto them, so that some of them they have for riding and on some of them they feed? 72 And for them in the animals are numerous different benefits and drinks; so will they not be grateful? 73 And they have taken gods besides Allah that they may be helped. 74 It is not in their power to help them; but they (the worshippers) are unto them a host in arms. 75 Therefore let not their speech grieve you; surely We know what they do in secret and what they do openly. 76 Doth not man see that it is We Who created him from sperm? yet behold! he (stands forth) as an open adversary! 77 And applies comparisons to Us, having forgotten his origin, and says: "Who can put life into decayed bones?" 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 He has created fire for you out of the green tree from which you can kindle other fires. 80 And is it not possible for the One Who created the heavens and the earth to create the likes of them? It is surely possible, why not? And He is the Great Creator, the All Knowing of everything. 81 When He wills a thing He has only to say: "Be," and it is. 82 All glory belongs to the One in whose hands is the control of all things. To Him you will all return. 83