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And if We had sent down the angels to them, and the dead had spoken with them, as they have requested, and We had gathered against them all things in droves (read qubulan, plural of qabīl, meaning 'throng upon throng', or read qibalan, meaning 'before their very eyes') and they were witness to your truthfulness, yet they would not have believed, as Allahu ta’ālā already knows, unless Allahu ta’ālā willed, that they believe and they did; but most of them are ignorant, of this.