Or you have a garden of date palms and grapes, then you bring forth rivers from their midst in abundance.

Or you cause the sky to fall upon us in pieces, as you claimed, or you bring Allah and angels before us face to face.

Or you have a house made of gold. Or you ascend to the sky, and we will not believe in your ascension unless you send down to us a book we may read.” Say, “I proclaim the Purity of my Lord. I am nothing but human, a messenger.”

Nothing prevented people from believing, when guidance came to them, except that they said, “Has Allah sent a man as a messenger?”

Say, “Had there been angels (living) on the earth, walking about in peace, We would have certainly sent down an angel from the heavens as a messenger.”

Say, “Allah is sufficient as witness between me and you. Surely, He is All-Aware, All-Watchful to His servants.”

The one whom Allah guides is the guided one; and those whom He lets go astray, you will never find for them any helpers other than Him. And We shall gather them on the Day of Judgment, with their faces down-blind, dumb and deaf. Their abode is the Fire. Whenever it calms down, We increase its flames for them.

That is their punishment, because they rejected Our signs and said, “Is it that once we are reduced to bones and dust, is it then that we shall be raised, created anew?”

Have they not seen that Allah who has created the heavens and the earth has the power to create them as they were? He has appointed a time for them in which there is no doubt. Still, the wrongdoers refused to do anything but reject.