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He said: "Take, then, four birds, tame them to yourself, then place, on each mountain, a part of them, then call them: they will come to you at a run.

The love of passions has been embellished for men: women, sons, heaped quintals of gold and silver, marked horses, cattle, and tilth.

I create for you, from clay, the form of a bird, then I breathe into it, and it becomes a bird, with God's permission.

and when you created out of clay the form of a bird, with My permission, then breathed into it, and it became a bird, with My permission;

to the point that, when they come to you to argue, those who disown say: "These are nothing but legends of the ancients."

There is no living being on the earth, nor bird flying with its two wings, but forms communities like you.

and if evil strikes them, they attribute it to an ill omen from Moussa and those with him.

these are nothing but legends of the ancients."

And the other said: "I saw myself carrying bread on my head, from which the birds were eating.

as for the other, he will be crucified, and the birds will eat from his head.

And when it is said to them: "What has your Guardian sent down?" they say: "Legends of the ancients" — so as to bear, on the Day of Appearance, their burdens in full, and a portion of the burdens of those they mislead without knowledge:

Have you not seen the birds, subjected in the space of the sky, held by nothing but God?

And We subjected the mountains to glorify with Dawud, and the birds as well;

And whoever associates with God, it is as though he had fallen from the sky, and the birds snatch him away, or the wind sweeps him down into a far-off place.

these are nothing but legends of the ancients."

Have you not seen that God — He is glorified by those in the heavens and on the earth, and the birds aligning their wings?

They have thus come with wrongdoing and falsification, saying: "These are legends of the ancients that he has transcribed himself, dictated to him morning and evening."

And Sulayman inherited from Dawud, and he said: "O men, we have been taught the language of birds, and we have been given a share of everything;

And Sulayman's armies were gathered for him, among the Occulted, humans and birds, and they were arranged in columns.

And he reviewed the birds, and said: "Why do I not see the hoopoe? Or is she among the absent?

They said: "We see an ill omen in you and in those with you."

these are nothing but legends of the ancients."

And We certainly gave Dawud a favor from Us: "O mountains, echo with him, and the birds."

They said: "We see in you an ill omen. If you do not stop, we will surely banish you, and a painful punishment from us will touch you."

We subjected the mountains to glorify with him, in the evening and at daybreak, and the birds gathered together:

And he who says to his two parents: "Fie on you both! Do you promise me that I will be brought forth, when generations have already passed before me?" — while they both call on God for rescue: "Woe to you, believe! Indeed the promise of God is true" — and he says: "These are nothing but legends of the ancients."

Around them will circulate children made eternal, with goblets, ewers, and a cup of spring water — from which they will neither ache nor be intoxicated — and savoury fruit they opt for, and the flesh of birds that they desire.

Have they not seen the birds above them, aligning their wings and folding them?

And do not defer to every contemptible oath-monger, stinging slanderer, spreader of slander, hinderer of good, crosser of limits, transgressor, coarse and, moreover, a social parasite — because he has goods and sons. When Our signs are recited to him, he says: "Legends of the ancients!"

They are faithful to their vows, and they fear a Day whose ill spreads far and wide.

And none denies it except every crosser of limits, a transgressor; when Our signs are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the ancients!"

Did He not lead their scheme astray? And did He not send upon them massive birds, which were hurling stones of formed clay at them? And did He not reduce them to the state of eaten husk?