And even so We sent not a warner before thee (Muhammad) into any township but its luxurious ones said: Lo! we found our fathers following a religion, and we are following their footprints

(And the warner) said: What! Even though I bring you better guidance than that ye found your fathers following? They answered: Lo! in what ye bring we are disbelievers

So We requited them. Then see the nature of the consequence for the rejecters

And when Abraham said unto his father and his folk: Lo! I am innocent of what ye worship

Save Him Who did create me, for He will surely guide me

And he made it a word enduring among his seed, that haply they might return

Nay, but I let these and their fathers enjoy life (only) till there should come unto them the Truth and a messenger making plain

And now that the Truth hath come unto them they say: This is mere magic, and lo! we are disbelievers therein

And they say: If only this Qur'an had been revealed to some great man of the two towns

Is it they who apportion thy Lord's mercy? We have apportioned among them their livelihood in the life of the world, and raised some of them above others in rank that some of them may take labour from others; and the mercy of thy Lord is better than (the wealth) that they amass

And were it not that mankind would have become one community, We might well have appointed, for those who disbelieve in the Beneficent, roofs of silver for their houses and stairs (of silver) whereby to mount