The physical growth of those whom We grant a long life will be reversed. Will you then 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 the living*, and to prove the Word against disbelievers. (Only the believers are deemed alive in Allah’s sight.) 70 Do they not see the cattle among things We have fashioned by Our power, which they own, 71 We have subdued these to them, and some of them they ride and some of them they eat; 72 And they have therefrom other benefits and drinks. Will they not then give thanks? 73 Yet they have taken, apart from God, gods; haply they might be helped. 74 Instead, the disbelievers will be brought into the presence of God as the soldiers of the idols. 75 So do not let their sayings grieve you. Surely, We have knowledge of what they hide and all that they reveal. 76 And did not man see that We have created him from a drop of semen? Yet he is an open quarreller! 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: "He who created you the first time. He has knowledge of every creation, 79 He Who created from a green tree a fire for you, a fire to light your stoves with.” 80 Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them? Yea! and He is the Creator (of all), the Knower. 81 Whenever He wills a thing, He just commands 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