If We extend anyone's life, We reverse his development. Can they not use their reason? 68 And We have not taught him poetry, nor is it meet for him; it is nothing but a reminder and a plain Quran, 69 That it may warn him who would have life, and (that) the word may prove true against the unbelievers. 70 Have they not seen how that We have created for them of that Our hands wrought cattle that they own? 71 And that We have subjected them to their (use)? of them some do carry them and some they eat: 72 they also have other uses in them and drinks. What, will they not give thanks! 73 And they have appointed Gods other than Allah, that perhaps they may be helped! 74 but they are not able to help them: rather they will be brought before God as their allied host. 75 So let not their speech grieve thee. Verily We! We know whatsoever they keep secret and whatsoever they make known. 76 Does man not see that We created him of a sperm drop, and lo! he is flagrantly contentious? 77 And he makes comparisons for Us, and forgets his own (origin and) Creation: He says, "Who can give life to (dry) bones and decomposed ones (at that)?" 78 Say thou: He shall quicken them Who brought them forth for the first time, and He is of every kind of creation the Knower! 79 He Who created from a green tree a fire for you, a fire to light your stoves with.” 80 Is not He who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the likes of them? Yes, [it is so]; and He is the Knowing Creator. 81 And His only task when He intends a thing is to command it, “Be” – and it thereupon happens! 82 So all glory to Him who holds all power over everything, to whom you will go back in the end. 83