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As for him who says to his parents (li-wālidayhi: a variant reading has li-wālidihi, 'his parent', denoting the generic noun): 'Fie (read uffin or uffan, as a verbal noun, meaning: '[something] putrid and disgusting') on you both: I am exasperated at both of you. Do you threaten me (a-ta'idāninī: a variant reading has a-ta'idānnī) that I shall be raised, from the grave, when already generations, communities, have passed away before me?', and they have not been raised from their graves. And they call on Allahu ta’ālā for succour, that he [their child] repent, saying [to him]: if you do not repent, 'Woe to you (waylaka, that is to say, halākaka, 'you are ruined!'). Believe!, in resurrection. Surely Allah’s promise is true'. But he says, 'This, belief in resurrection, is nothing but the fables of the ancients', lies of theirs.