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He, the Exalted, also said:
"They ask you about the Spirit. Say: ‘The Spirit is from the command of my Lord, and you have been granted only a little knowledge.’" (Al-Isrāʾ 85)
He said:
"Or did you think that the companions of the Cave and the Inscription were, among Our signs, something extraordinary?" (Al-Kahf 9)
And the Exalted said, after relating the story of Noah in Sūrah Hūd—its narrative being the longest—
وَقَالَ:
{وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُمْ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا}
[الإسراء: ٨٥]
.
وَقَالَ:
{أَمْ حَسِبْتَ أَنَّ أَصْحَابَ الْكَهْفِ وَالرَّقِيمِ كَانُوا مِنْ آيَاتِنَا عَجَبًا}
[الكهف: ٩]
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وَقَالَ تَعَالَى لَمَّا قَصَّ قِصَّةَ نُوحٍ مِنْ سُورَةِ هُودٍ، وَهِيَ أَطْوَلُ