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Or lest you should say, 'If the Scripture had been revealed to us, we would have surely been more rightly guided than they are', because of the excellence of our minds. Now indeed a clear proof, a [clear] statement, has come to you from your Rabb, and a guidance and a mercy, for him who follows it; and who, that is, none, does greater evil than he who denies Allah’s āyāt/verses and turns away from them? We shall surely requite those who turn away from Our verses with dreadful, the most severe, chastisement for their aversion.