God hath sealed their hearts and their ears, and over their eyes is a covering, and for them is [ordained] a great punishment. (ii. 1-6.) _GOD._ III. SAY, He is God, One [God]; God, the Eternal. He begetteth not nor is begotten, And there is none equal unto Him. (cxii.)[34] IV. _The Throne-Verse._[35] God! There is no God but He, the _Ever_-Living, the Ever-Subsisting. Slumber seizeth Him not, nor sleep. To Him belongeth whatsoever is in the Heavens and whatsoever is in the Earth. Who is he that shall intercede with Him, unless by His permission? He knoweth what [hath been] before them and what [shall be] after them, and they shall not compass aught of His knowledge save what He willeth. His Throne comprehendeth the Heavens and the Earth,[36] and the care of them burdeneth Him not. And He is the High, the Great. (ii. 256.) V. †SAY, O God, to whom belongeth dominion, Thou givest dominion to whom Thou wilt, and from whom Thou wilt Thou takest it away; Thou exaltest whom Thou wilt, and whom Thou wilt Thou humblest. In Thy hand is good. Verily Thou art all-powerful. Thou causest the night to pass into the day, and Thou causest the day to pass into the night; and Thou bringest forth the living from the dead, and Thou bringest forth the dead from the living; and thou givest sustenance to whom Thou wilt without measure. (iii. 25, 26.) VI. Blessed be He in whose hand is the dominion and who is all-powerful;[37] Who hath created death and life, that He may prove you, which of you [will be] best in works: and He is the Mighty, the Very-Forgiving: Who hath created seven heavens, one above another. Thou seest not any fault in the creation of the Compassionate. But lift up the eyes again _to heaven_. Dost thou see any fissures? Then lift up the eyes again twice; the sight shall return unto thee dull and dim. (lxvii. 1-4.) VII. Verily your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days: then He ascended the throne. He causeth the night to cover the day; it followeth it swiftly: and _He created_ the sun and the moon and the stars, made subject utterly to His command. Do not the _whole_ creation and command belong to Him? Blessed be God, the Lord of the Worlds. (vii. 52.) VIII. We have placed in heaven _the twelve_ signs _of the Zodiac_, and adorned them for the beholders _with the constellations_; And We have guarded them (_by means of shooting stars_) from every accursed devil,[38] Excepting him who listeneth by stealth, whom a manifest shooting star pursueth. We have also spread forth the earth, and thrown thereon firm _mountains_,[39] and We have caused to spring forth in it every kind [of green thing] weighed.[40] And We have provided for you therein necessaries of life, and _for_ him whom ye do not sustain;[41] And there is not a thing but the storehouses thereof are with Us, and We send it not down save in determined quantities.