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 that he may warn him who is alive and establish an argument against those that deny the Truth. 70 Have they not seen how We have created for them of Our handiwork the cattle, so that they are their owners, 71 And have subdued them unto them, so that some of them they have for riding, some for food? 72 and may have [yet other] benefits from them, and [milk] to drink? Will they not, then, be grateful? 73 They have set up other gods besides God, hoping to be helped by them, 74 They are not able to give them succour; whereas they shall be against them host brought forward. 75 So let not their speech grieve thee (O Muhammad). Lo! We know what they conceal and what proclaim. 76 And did not man see that We have created him from a drop of semen? Yet he is an open quarreller! 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 created them for the first time! for He is Well-versed in every kind of creation!- 79 Who hath appointed for you fire from the green tree, and behold! ye kindle from it. 80 How can He who created the heavens and the earth not be able to create others like them? Why not? He is the real creator all-knowing. 81 His affair, when He intendeth a thing, is only that He saith unto it: be, and it becometh. 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