Save in mercy from thy Lord; verily His bounty towards thee is great.
Say: Surely if mankind and the Jinn united in order to produce the like of this Korān, they could not produce its like, though they helped one another.
We have varied every kind of parable for men in this Korān, but most men consent only to discredit it.
And they say, “We will by no means believe in thee till thou makest a spring to gush forth for us from the earth;
Or till there cometh to thee a garden of palm-trees and grapes, and thou makest rivers to gush forth abundantly in its midst;
Or thou make the heaven to fall down in pieces upon us, as thou pretendest; or bring God and the angels before us;
Or thou have a house of gold; or thou ascend up into Heaven; and we will not believe in thy ascent until thou send down to us a book which we may read.” Say: Extolled be the glory of my Lord! Am I aught save a man, a messenger?
And nothing prevented men from believing, when the guidance came to them, but their saying, “Hath God sent a mere man as a messenger?”
Say: Had there been angels upon the earth walking at ease, we had surely sent them an angel from heaven as an apostle.
Say: God is witness enough between me and you: verily He knoweth and seeth His servants.