And him whom we make old, we bow down his body: have they no wits?
We have not taught [Mohammad] poetry, nor would it befit him. It is only a warning and a plain Korān,
To warn whosoever liveth: and the sentence shall be carried out upon the unbelievers.
Do they not see that we have created for them, of what our hands have made, the cattle which they possess?
And we have subdued them unto them, and some of them are for riding and of some they eat,
And they have in them profit and milk to drink: and will they not be thankful?
But they have taken other gods beside God, if haply they may be holpen:
They are not able to help them; yet they themselves are an army arrayed for their defence.
But let not their speech grieve thee: verily, we know what they hide and what they show!
Doth not man see that we created him from a germ? Yet, behold he is an open adversary,