And they have said, ‘O thou unto whom the Admonition[89] hath been sent down, thou art certainly possessed by a Jinnee.[90]
Why dost thou not come unto us with the angels, if thou be of those that speak truth?’
We send not down the angels save with justice,[91] nor would they then be respited.
Verily, We have sent down the Admonition, and We will surely preserve it.
And We have sent Messengers before thee among the sects of the former generations;
And there came not unto them any Messenger but they had him in derision:
In like manner will We put it into the hearts of the sinners of Mekkeh to do so;
They shall not believe in him, and the punishment of the former generations hath passed.
And if We should open above them a gate in heaven, and they should pass the day mounting up to it,
They would say, ‘Our eyes are only intoxicated, or rather we are a people enchanted.’