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To Him devolves [all] knowledge of the Hour - when it shall come to pass, none other than Him knows this. And no fruit (thamaratin: a variant reading has [the plural] thamarātin, 'fruits') emerges from its sheath, its receptacle (akmām, the plural of kimm), except with His knowledge, and no female bears [child] or delivers except with His knowledge. And on the day when He will call out to them, 'Where [then] are My associates?' they will say, 'We proclaim to You, we now apprise You, that there is no witness amongst us', that is, a witness [who can testify to the allegation] that You have an associate.