Surah Al-Anbiyaa

Nigh unto men has drawn their reckoning, while they in heedlessness are yet turning away;

no Remembrance from their Lord comes to them lately renewed, but they listen to it yet playing,

diverted their hearts. The evildoers whisper one to another, 'Is this aught but a mortal like to yourselves? What, will you take to sorcery with your eyes open?'

He says: 'My Lord knows what is said in the heavens and the earth, and He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing.'

Nay, but they say: 'A hotchpotch of nightmares! Nay, he has forged it; nay, he is a poet! Now therefore let him bring us a sign, even as the ancient ones were sent as Messengers.'

Not one city that We destroyed before them believed; what then, will they not believe?

And We sent none before thee, but men to whom We made revelation -- question the People of the Remembrance, if you do not know --

nor did We fashion them as bodies that ate not food, neither were they immortal;

then We made true the promise We gave them and We delivered them, and whomsoever We would; and We destroyed the prodigal.

Now We have sent down to you a Book wherein is your Remembrance; will you not understand?

How many a city that was evildoing We have shattered, and set up after it another people!

Then, when they perceived Our might, behold, they ran headlong out of it.

'Run not! Return you unto the luxury that you exulted in, and your dwelling-places; haply you shall be questioned.'

They said, 'Alas for us! We have been evildoers.'

So they ceased not to cry, until We made them stubble, silent and still.