If We will, We can put out their eyes: then let them strive to seek the way. From where will they see it? If We please, We can so transform them in their places that they would neither be able to go forward nor turn backward.56 Whomsoever We grant a long life, We just reverse him in nature and constitution.57 Do they not understand anything (from this)? We have not taught this (Prophet) poetry nor does poetry behoove him.58 This is only an Admonition and a lucid poetry Book, so that he may warn everyone who is living59 and the charge is established against the disbelievers. Do they not see that out of what Our hands have fashioned,60 We have created for them cattle of which they are masters? We have so subjected these to them that they ride on some and eat the flesh of others, and in them there are different advantages and drinks for them. Then, will they not be grateful?61 Yet, they have set up other gods, apart from Allah, hoping that they would be helped. They cannot help them at all: yet do these people stand as an ever ready army at their service.62 Well, let not their words grieve you: We know whatever they hide and whatever they reveal.63 Does64 not man see that We created him from a sperm-drop, and yet he stands forth as a manifest adversary?65 Now he strikes out likenesses for Us66 and forgets his own creation.67 He says, "Who will give life to these bones when they are rotten?" Tell him, "He Who created them in the first instance will give them life again: He is skilled at every kind of creation. He it is Who created fire for you from the green tree, with which you kindle your fuel.68 Is not He, Who created the heavens and the earth, able to create the like of them ? Why not, when He is the skillful Creator. When He intends anything, He needs only say: 'Be', and it is. Glorified is He in Whose hand is the absolute control of everything, and to Him you shall all be returned.