and their eyes will be downcast and they will be overwhelmed with shame: they were invited to prostrate themselves when they were safe [but refused]

So [Prophet] leave those who reject this revelation to Me: We shall lead them on, step by step, in ways beyond their knowledge

I will allow them more time, for My plan is powerful

Do you demand some reward from them that would burden them with debt

Do they have knowledge of the unseen that enables them to write it down

Wait patiently [Prophet] for your Lord’s judgement: do not be like the man in the whale who called out in distress

if his Lord’s grace had not reached him, he would have been left, abandoned and blameworthy, on the barren shore

but his Lord chose him and made him one of the Righteous

The disbelievers almost strike you down with their looks when they hear the Quran. They say, ‘He must be mad!’

but truly it is nothing other than a Reminder for all peoples

The Inevitable Hour

What is the Inevitable Hour

What will explain to you what the Inevitable Hour is

The people of Thamud and 'Ad denied that the crashing blowwould come

Thamud was destroyed by a deafening blast

Ad was destroyed by a furious wind

that God let loose against them for seven consecutive nights, eight consecutive days, so that you could have seen its people lying dead like hollow palm-trunks

Can you see any trace of them now