17. Sura Al-Isrá

And We have certainly diversified for the people in this Qur’ān from every [kind of] example, but most of the people refused except disbelief.

And they say, "We will not believe you until you break open for us from the ground a spring

Or [until] you have a garden of palm trees and grapes and make rivers gush forth within them in force [and abundance]

Or you make the heaven fall upon us in fragments as you have claimed or you bring Allāh and the angels before [us]

Or you have a house of ornament [i.e., gold] or you ascend into the sky. And [even then], we will not believe in your ascension until you bring down to us a book we may read." Say, "Exalted is my Lord! Was I ever but a human messenger?"

And what prevented the people from believing when guidance came to them except that they said, "Has Allāh sent a human messenger?"

Say, "If there were upon the earth angels walking securely,¹ We would have sent down to them from the heaven an angel [as a] messenger."

Say, "Sufficient is Allāh as Witness between me and you. Indeed He is ever, concerning His servants, Aware and Seeing."

And whoever Allāh guides - he is the [rightly] guided; and whoever He sends astray¹ - you will never find for them protectors besides Him, and We will gather them on the Day of Resurrection [fallen] on their faces - blind, dumb and deaf. Their refuge is Hell; every time it subsides, We increase [for] them blazing fire.