And whomever We bring to an old age, We reverse him in creation; so do they 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 derive other advantages and drinks from them. Even then they do not offer thanks, 73 But [nay,] they take to worshipping deities other than God, [hoping] to be succoured [by them, and not knowing that] 74 It is not in their power to help them; but they (the worshippers) are unto them a host in arms. 75 So let not their speech grieve thee (O Muhammad). Lo! We know what they conceal and what proclaim. 76 Hath not man seen that We have created him from a drop of seed? Yet lo! he is an open opponent. 77 And he propoundeth for us a similitude, and forgetteth his creation; he saith: who shall quicken the bones when they are decayed? 78 Say, "He will give them life who produced them the first time; and He is, of all creation, Knowing." 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 thereof?" - Yea, indeed! for He is the Creator Supreme, of skill and knowledge (infinite)! 81 And His only task when He intends a thing is to command it, “Be” – and it thereupon happens! 82 So all glory to Him who holds all power over everything, to whom you will go back in the end. 83