Closer draws to people the time of their reckoning, and yet they turn away stubbornly heedless of it.

Whenever a new reminder comes to them from their Lord, they listen to it with playful amusement. [26:5]

With their hearts preoccupied with fleeting delights, the wrongdoers confer secretly, 'Is he not just a human being like you? Will you yield to his spellbinding eloquence with your eyes open?'

The Prophet said, 'My Lord knows every word that is spoken in the High and the Low. He is the Hearer, the Knower.'

Nay,' they say, 'Muddled dreams! Nay, he has but invented it! Nay, he is but a poet! Let him then bring us a miracle (as we have heard), like the ones that were given to Prophets of old!'

Not one of the communities before them that We (Our law) destroyed, would ever believe (in their Messengers). Will these, then, believe?

For, before you We sent none but men to whom We granted revelation. So, (tell the deniers), 'Ask the followers of previous reminders if you know not.' [12:109, 16:43]

We did not give them bodies that would not require food, nor were they immortal.

We always fulfilled Our promise to them. We saved them and all those who were worthy to be saved according to Our law and We destroyed those who had wasted their own 'Self.'

O Mankind! Now We have revealed to you a Book that is all about you and it will give you eminence. Will you not, then, use reason? [21:24, 23:70, 43:43-44]