And when thou tellest of thy Lord in the Korān as One, they turn their backs in repulsion.
We know well what they listen for, when they listen to thee, and when they whisper apart, when the wicked say, “Ye do but follow a man enchanted.”
See what comparisons they make for thee! but they wander and cannot find the way.
They say, “What! when we have become bones and dust, shall we forsooth be raised as a new creature?”
Say: Yes! were ye stones, or iron, or any creature, the hardest [to raise again] that your minds can imagine. But they will say, “Who shall restore us?” Say: He who began you in the beginning! And they will wag their heads at thee and say, “When shall this be?” Say: Maybe it is nigh at hand.—
A day when God shall summon you and ye shall answer with His praise; and ye shall think that ye have tarried but a little while.
And say to my servants that they speak pleasantly: verily the Devil provoketh strife among them; verily the Devil is man’s open enemy.
Your Lord knoweth you well; if He please He will have mercy on you; or if He please He will torment you; and we have not sent thee to be our governor over them!
Thy Lord knoweth well who is in the heavens and in the earth. And we distinguished some of the prophets above others, and we gave to David the Psalms.
Say: Call ye upon those whom ye profess beside Him; but they will have no power to put away trouble from you or alter it.