The Bee
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[16:70]
AND GOD has created you, and in time will cause you to die; and many a one of you is reduced in old age to a most abject state, ceasing to know anything of what he once knew so well.
Verily, God is all-knowing, infinite in His power!

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* v.70 : Lit., “is reduced to a most abject age, so that he knows nothing after [having had] knowledge”: alluding to the organic curve of man’s growth, his acquisition of bodily strength, intelligence, and experience, followed by gradual decay and, in some cases, the utter helplessness of senility, comparable to the helplessness of a new-born child.