No messenger came to them, but they used to mock at him.

So We have destroyed those who were stronger than these (people of Makkah) in power, and the example of the earlier people has already passed.

Should you ask them as to who has created the heavens and the earth, they will certainly say, “They are created by the All-Mighty, the All-Knowing,”

the One who has made the earth a cradle for you, and has made for you pathways therein, so that you may be guided,

and the One who has sent down water from the sky in due measure. Then We have revived with it a dead town. In the same way, you will be brought forth (alive from the graves),

and the One who has created all the pairs, and has made for you the boats and the cattle that you ride,