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And the jinn hailed and the lights shone,
and the truth appeared from the meaning and its word.
They became blind and deaf to the heralding of glad tidings,
they did not hear, nor yet was the light of warning seen by them,
even though soothsayers had informed the people
that their crooked religions would not stand.
And even after they witnessed shooting stars on the horizon,
falling, just as their idols were falling on earth,
so much so that they kept running from the path of Revelation, defeated,
the devils - one after the another defeated
as though in their running away they were the heroes of Abrahah.
Or, like the army upon whom pebbles were thrown from the palm of his hand,
and the truth appeared from the meaning and its word.
They became blind and deaf to the heralding of glad tidings,
they did not hear, nor yet was the light of warning seen by them,
even though soothsayers had informed the people
that their crooked religions would not stand.
And even after they witnessed shooting stars on the horizon,
falling, just as their idols were falling on earth,
so much so that they kept running from the path of Revelation, defeated,
the devils - one after the another defeated
as though in their running away they were the heroes of Abrahah.
Or, like the army upon whom pebbles were thrown from the palm of his hand,