The Believer
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[40:67]
It is He who creates you out of dust, and then out of a drop of sperm, and then out of a germ-cell; and then He brings you forth as children; and then [He ordains] that you reach maturity, and then, that you grow old – though some of you [He causes to] die earlier – and [all this He ordains] so that you might reach a term set [by Him], and that you might [learn to] use your reason.

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* v.67 : See note 4 on 23:12.
* Or: “a term known [only to Him]” – cf. 6:2 and the corresponding note 2.