Surah 17. Al-Asra - The Night Journey

“Or have a garden of date palms and grape vines and cause rivers to gush forth in their midst.”

“Or make the sky fall on us, as you keep warning us about retribution, or bring God and the angels face to face before us.” [26:187, 6:35]

“Or unless you have a dazzling house of gold, or unless you climb into the sky. But, nay, we will not believe your climbing unless you bring a written book that we can read.” Tell them, “Glory be to my Lord! Am I more than a human, a Messenger?”

Yet whenever Guidance came to people, nothing has ever kept them from believing as much as this objection, “Would God send a mortal man as His Messenger?”

Say, “If angels walked about and dwelled on the earth, We would have sent an angel from the heaven as Messenger.” [43:60]

Tell them, “God suffices as witness between me and you. Surely, He is fully Aware of His servants.” [The outcome through His Laws will prove who is right]

The rightly guided is the one who follows God’s Guidance. Anyone who quits His Way, has gone astray. You will not find any protectors for them outside His Laws. On the Day of Resurrection, We will gather them together prone upon their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf. (That is how they lived their life.) Hell is their abode, and every time its flames abate, We shall increase for them its blazing flame.

Such is their reward because they preemptively rejected Our messages. And for having said, “When we are bones and fragments, shall we be raised from the dead as a new creation?”

Do they not realize that God Who created the heavens and the earth, is Able to create them anew in their own likeness again? He has appointed an irrevocable time to end the worldly life (and of Resurrection). Only those remain submerged in the darkness of ignorance who are bent upon doing wrong to their own ’selves’ (and thus remain ungrateful for the Benevolent Guidance).

Say, “If you owned the treasures of my Lord’s grace, you would keep them back for fear of spending them. For, the human being has always been covetous.”