If We extend anyone's life, We reverse his development. Can they not use their reason? 68 We have not taught him poetry; it is not seemly for him. It is only a Remembrance and a Clear Koran, 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 them to them, and some of them they ride, and some they eat; 72 And therein they have advantages and drinks; will they not then be grateful? 73 But they have taken besides Allah [false] deities that perhaps they would be helped. 74 Instead, the disbelievers will be brought into the presence of God as the soldiers of the idols. 75 Let not their speech, then, grieve thee. Verily We know what they hide as well as what they disclose. 76 Hath not man seen that We have created him from a drop of seed? Yet lo! he is an open opponent. 77 And applies comparisons to Us, having forgotten his origin, and says: "Who can put life into decayed bones?" 78 Say, "He who brought them into being in the first instance will give them life again: He has knowledge of every type of creation: 79 [It is] He who made for you from the green tree, fire, and then from it you ignite. 80 Is He who created the heavens and earth not able to create others like these people? Of course He is! He is indeed the Supreme Creator, the All Knowing: 81 when He decrees a thing, He need only say, "Be!" and it is. 82 Limitless, then, in His glory is He in whose hand rests the mighty dominion over all things; and unto Him you all will be brought back! 83