And a shade of black smoke,
Not cool or grateful!
Verily, before that, they were prosperous;
But they persisted in the most grievous sin,
And used to say,
“When we have died, and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be raised again,
And our fathers the men of yore?”
Say: Verily those of yore and of the latter days
Shall surely be gathered to the trysting-place of a day which is known.
Then ye, O ye who err and call it a lie,