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They swore by Allah with their strongest oaths that if a warner came to them, they would be more guided than any other nation. But when a warner came, it only increased their aversion
35:42And they swore by Allah, their most binding oath, that if a warner came unto them they would be more tractable than any of the nations; yet, when a warner came unto them it aroused in them naught save repugnance,