or are
they but a people transgressing beyond bounds?

P: Do their minds command them to do this, or are they an outrageous
folk?

S: Nay! do their understandings bid them this? Or are they an inordinate
people?

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Y: Or do they say, "He fabricated the (Message)"? Nay, they have no
faith!

P: Or say they: He hath invented it? Nay, but they will not believe!

S: Or do they say: He has forged it. Nay! they do not believe.

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Y: Let them then produce a recital like unto it,- If (it be) they speak
the truth!

P: Then let them produce speech the like thereof, if they are truthful.

S: Then let them bring an announcement like it if they are truthful.

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Y: Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves the creators?

P: Or were they created out of naught? Or are they the creators?

S: Or were they created without there being anything, or are they the
creators?

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Y: Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, they have no firm
belief.

P: Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they are sure
of nothing!

S: Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay! they have no
certainty.

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Y: Or are the Treasures of thy Lord with them, or are they the managers
(of affairs)?

P: Or do they own the treasures of thy Lord? Or have they been given
charge (thereof)?

S: Or have they the treasures of your Lord with them? Or have they been
set in absolute authority?

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Y: Or have they a ladder, by which they can (climb up to heaven and)
listen (to its secrets)? Then let (such a) listener of theirs produce a
manifest proof.

P: Or have they any stairway (unto heaven) by means of which they
overhear (decrees). Then let their listener produce some warrant
manifest!

S: Or have they the means by which they listen? Then let their listener
bring a clear authority.

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Y: Or has He only daughters and ye have sons?

P: Or hath He daughters whereas ye have sons?

S: Or has He daughters while you have sons?

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Y: Or is it that thou dost ask for a reward, so that they are burdened
with a load of debt?-

P: Or askest thou (Muhammad) a fee from them so that they are plunged in
debt?

S: Or do you ask them for a reward, so that they are overburdened by a
debt?

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Y: Or that the Unseen in it their hands, and they write it down?

P: Or possess they the Unseen so that they can write (it) down?

S: Or have they the unseen so t