Their reckoning draweth nigh for mankind, while they turn away in heedlessness

Never cometh there unto them a new reminder from their Lord but they listen to it while they play

With hearts preoccupied. And they confer in secret. The wrong-doers say: Is this other than a mortal like you? Will ye then succumb to magic when ye see (it)

He saith: My Lord knoweth what is spoken in the heaven and the earth. He is the Hearer, the Knower

Nay, say they, (these are but) muddled dreams; nay, he hath but invented it; nay, he is but a poet. Let him bring us a portent even as those of old (who were Allah's messengers) were sent (with portents)

Not a township believed of those which We destroyed before them (though We sent them portents): would they then believe

And We sent not (as Our messengers) before thee other than men, whom We inspired. Ask the followers of the Reminder if ye know not

We gave them not bodies that would not eat food, nor were they immortals

Then we fulfilled the promise unto them. So we delivered them and whom We would, and We destroyed the prodigals

Now We have revealed unto you a Scripture wherein is your Reminder. Have ye then no sense