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 to the end that it may warn everyone who is alive [of heart,] and that the word [of God] may bear witness against all who deny the truth. 70 Do they not see that We have created cattle for them, out of what Our hands have wrought, so they are their masters? 71 We have subjected the cattle to them so that some of them they ride and eat the flesh of others. 72 they also have other uses in them and drinks. What, will they not give thanks! 73 And they have taken besides Allah aliha (gods), hoping that they might be helped (by those so called gods). 74 but they are not able to help them: rather they will be brought before God as their allied host. 75 So let not their speech grieve you. Indeed, We know what they conceal and what they declare. 76 Does not man see that We have created him from the small seed? Then lo! he is an open disputant. 77 producing arguments against Us, and forgetting his own creation. He asks, "Who can give life back to bones after they have rotted away?" 78 Say, "He will give them life who produced them the first time; and He is, of all creation, Knowing." 79 He has created fire for you out of the green tree from which you can kindle other fires. 80 Is the One who has created the heavens and the earth not able to create another creature like the human being? He certainly has the power to do so. He is the Supreme Creator and is All-knowing. 81 But His command, when He intendeth a thing, is only that He saith unto it: Be! and it is. 82 Wherefore hallowed be He in whose hand is the governance of everything, and unto whom ye shall be returned. 83