To whoever We give a long life We make him stoop. Do they not understand? 68 AND [thus it is:] We have not imparted to this [Prophet the gift of] poetry, nor would [poetry] have suited this [message]: it is but a reminder and a [divine] discourse, clear in itself and clearly showing the truth, 69 that he may warn him who is alive and establish an argument against those that deny the Truth. 70 Are they, then, not aware that it is for them that We have created, among all the things which Our hands have wrought, the domestic animals of which they are [now] masters? 71 And We have subdued them unto them so that some of them they have for riding and some they eat. 72 they also have other uses in them and drinks. What, will they not give thanks! 73 They have set up other gods besides God, hoping to be helped by them, 74 They cannot help them, though they be hosts made ready for them. 75 So let not their speech grieve thee. Verily We! We know whatsoever they keep secret and whatsoever they make known. 76 Has not man regarded how that We created him of a sperm-drop? Then lo, he is a manifest adversary. 77 He strikes for Us a similitude and forgot his own creation. He says: “Who will quicken the bones when they have decayed?” 78 Say: He will give life to them Who brought them into existence at first, and He is cognizant of all creation 79 "The same Who produces for you fire out of the green tree, when behold! ye kindle therewith (your own fires)! 80 Has He Who created the heavens and the earth no power to create the likes of them? Yes, indeed, He is the Superb Creator. 81 When He wills a thing, His command is to say to it 'Be', and it is! 82 So glory be to Him, in whose hand is the dominion of everything, and unto whom you shall be returned. 83