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he who made for you the earth a bed, and the sky a structure, and who sent down from the sky water, by which He brought forth fruits as provision for you.

Is, then, one whose structure has been founded upon guardedness toward God and His good pleasure better, or one whose structure has been founded on the edge of a ravine about to cave in, which then caves in with him into the fire of Jahannam?

The structure they built does not cease to be a doubt in their cores, unless their cores break into pieces.

Those before them indeed plotted; but God came to their structure from the foundations, so that the roof fell upon them from above, and the punishment came to them from where they did not sense it.

when they disputed among themselves over their matter and said: "Build over them a structure" —

Do you build on every hill a sign, in play, and take for yourselves factories in hope of abiding eternally, and when you grip, you grip as tyrants?

They said: "Build him a structure, and cast him into the Blaze!" They intended a scheme against him, but We made them the lowest.

So We subjected the wind to him, running at his command, gently, wherever he aimed; and the Diverters, every builder and diver, and others bound together in fetters.

But those who guarded themselves before their Guardian will have high chambers, above which other chambers are built, beneath which rivers flow;

And Fir'awn said: "O Haman, build me a belvedere, that I may reach the means, the means of the heavens, and glimpse the deity of Moussa; I surely presume he is lying."

God is He who made for you the earth a stable place and the sky a structure, who gave you form and made your forms excellent, and provided you with wholesome things;

Have they not looked at the sky above them: how We built it and adorned it, without a single crack in it?

And the sky, We built it with might,

Indeed, God loves those who fight in His way in ranks, as if they were a compact structure.

And God multiplies an example for those who believe: the wife of Fir'awn, when she said: "My Guardian, build for me, near You, a house in the Garden, and save me from Fir'awn and his doing, and save me from the wrongdoing people."

Have We not made the earth a resting place, and the mountains as stakes? Have We not created you in pairs, and made your sleep a rest? Have We not made the night a covering, and the day for livelihood? Have We not built above you seven strong, and placed an incandescent torch? And sent down from those that press out abundant water, that We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation, and intertwined gardens?

He built it, elevated its vault, and proportioned it; and He darkened its night and brought forth its morning light.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the sun and its morning brightness! By the moon when it comes in its wake! By the day when it unveils it! By the night when it covers it! By the sky and what built it! By the earth and what spread it! By a Self, and what proportioned it, then inspired it with its transgression and its guardedness! He has certainly succeeded who purifies it, and he has certainly failed who buries it.