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nd when the word [of judgement] falls upon them, [when] they deserve that chastisement befalls them as well as all [other] disbelievers, We shall bring forth for them a beast from the earth which shall speak to them [saying], that is, which shall speak in Arabic to those who are alive at the time when it appears, among its other statements, it will say to them on Our behalf: 'Indeed mankind (read tukallimuhum inna'l-nāsa; a variant has tukallimuhum bi-anna'l-nāsa, 'to tell them that mankind') had no faith in Our verses', in other words, they did not believe in the Qur'ān and what it comprises [of the mention] of resurrection, reckoning and requital. With its [the beast's] appearance the enjoining of decency and forbidding of indecency will cease, and thereafter no disbeliever will believe - just as Allahu ta’ālā revealed to Noah [when He said to him]: None of your people will believe except he who has already believed [Q. 11:36].