If We grant long life to any, We cause him to be reversed in nature: Will they not then understand? 68 And We have not taught him poetry, nor is it meet for him; it is nothing but a reminder and a plain Quran, 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, among the things which Our hands have fashioned, We have created for them cattle of which they are the masters, 71 And We have tamed them for them, so some of them they ride, and some of them they eat. 72 they also have other uses in them and drinks. What, will they not give thanks! 73 And yet they have taken gods, other than Allah, so that they might be helped! 74 (But) they shall not be able to assist them, and they shall be a host brought up before them. 75 So let not their speech grieve thee (O Muhammad). Lo! We know what they conceal and what proclaim. 76 Does not man see that We have created him from the small seed? Then lo! he is an open disputant. 77 And applies comparisons to Us, having forgotten his origin, and says: "Who can put life into decayed bones?" 78 Say, "He will give them life Who created them for the first time! for He is Well-versed in every kind of creation!- 79 "The same Who produces for you fire out of the green tree, when behold! ye kindle therewith (your own fires)! 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 But His command, when He intendeth a thing, is only that He saith unto it: Be! and it is. 82 So glory be to Him, in whose hand is the dominion of everything, and unto whom you shall be returned. 83