S: He said: Then what is the state of the former generations?
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Y: He replied: "The knowledge of that is with my Lord, duly recorded: my
Lord never errs, nor forgets,"-
P: He said: The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a Record. My Lord neither erreth nor forgetteth,
S: He said: The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a book, my Lord errs not, nor does He forget;
020.053 Y: "He Who has, made for you the earth like a carpet spread out; has enabled you to go about therein by roads (and channels); and has sent down water from the sky." With it have We produced diverse pairs of plants each separate from the others.
P: Who hath appointed the earth as a bed and hath threaded roads for you therein and hath sent down water from the sky and thereby We have brought forth divers kinds of vegetation,
S: Who made the earth for you an expanse and made for you therein paths and sent down water from the cloud; then thereby We have brought forth many species of various herbs.
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Y: Eat (for yourselves) and pasture your cattle: verily, in this are
Signs for men endued with understanding.
P: (Saying): Eat ye and feed your cattle. Lo! herein verily are portents for men of thought.
S: Eat and pasture your cattle; most surely there are signs in this for those endowed with understanding.