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So let them laugh a little and [then] weep much as recompense for what they used to earn.
And they came to their father at night, weeping.
And they fall upon their faces weeping, and it [i.e., the Qur’ān] increases them in humble submission.
Those were the ones upon whom Allāh bestowed favor from among the prophets of the descendants of Adam and of those We carried [in the ship] with Noah, and of the descendants of Abraham and Israel [i.e., Jacob], and of those whom We guided and chose. When the verses of the Most Merciful were recited to them, they fell in prostration and weeping.
And the heaven and earth wept not for them, nor were they reprieved.
And that it is He who makes [one] laugh and weep