S: We know best what they listen to when they listen to you, and when
they take counsel secretly, when the unjust say: You follow only a man
deprived of reason.
017.048
Y: See what similes they strike for thee: but they have gone astray, and
never can they find a way.
P: See what similitudes they coin for thee, and thus are all astray, and
cannot find a road!
S: See what they liken you to! So they have gone astray and cannot find
the way.
017.049
Y: They say: "What! when we are reduced to bones and dust, should we
really be raised up (to be) a new creation?"
P: And they say: When we are bones and fragments, shall we forsooth, be
raised up as a new creation?
S: And they say: What! when we shall have become bones and decayed
particles, shall we then certainly be raised up, being a new creation?
017.050
Y: Say: "(Nay!) be ye stones or iron,"
P: Say: Be ye stones or iron
S: Say: Become stones or iron,
017.051
Y: "Or created matter which, in your minds, is hardest (to be raised
up),- (Yet shall ye be raised up)!" then will they say: "Who will cause
us to return?" Say: "He who created you first!" Then will they wag
their heads towards thee, and say, "When will that be?" Say, "May be it
will be quite soon!"
P: Or some created thing that is yet greater in your thoughts! Then they
will say: Who shall bring us back (to life).
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