It is Allah Who has endowed you with the faculties of hearing and seeing and given you hearts to think, but you do not show any gratitude.77 It is He Who has scattered you in the earth, and before Him you shall all be mustered. It is He Who gives life and ordains death, and controls the alternation of the night and the day.78 Can you not understand this?79 Nay! these people say what their forefathers said before them. They say, "Shall we be raised up again, when we have turned into dust after death and become mere bones? We have heard many such threats and so did our forefathers before us. These are nothing but ancient tales".80 Say to them, "Tell me, if you know, whose is the earth and all who dwell in it?" They will say, "Allah's". Ask them, "Then why do you not understand this"?81 Say to them, "To whom do the seven heavens and the Glorious Throne belong?" They will say, "To Allah"82 Say, "Then why do you not fear Him".83 Say to them, "Tell me, if you know, whose is the Sovereignty84 over everything? And who is that Being who gives protection while none can give protection against Him?" They will surely reply, "This power belongs to Allah." Say, "How then are you so bewitched?"85 The fact is that We have brought the Truth before them and undoubtedly these people are liars.86 Allah has no offspring,87 and there is no other deity as a partner with Him. Had it been so, every deity would have become an independent ruler over its creation; moreover, in that case, they would have tried to override one another.88 Exalted is Allah and free from the sort of things they attribute to Him. He has full knowledge of all that is open and hidden,89 and He is far above the shirk these people invent.