Qaf. By the glorious Qur'an!1 -Nay, but they wondered that a Warner from among themselves had come to them.2 So the disbelievers said, "This is indeed a strange thing: when we are dead and have become dust, (shall we be raised up again)? Such a return is far removed from reason.”3 (Whereas) We know very well whatever the earth consumes of their bodies, and We have a Book which preserves every thing.4 Nay, but these people plainly denied the Truth when it came to them. That is why they are confused now.5 What!6 Have they never looked up to the sky above them, (and observed) how we made it and adorned it,7 and how there is no flaw in it?8 And We spread out the earth and set mountains in it and caused to grow in it every kind of beautiful vegetable.9 All these things are eye-openers and object lessons for every servant who turns (to the Truth). And from the sky We sent down blessed water where-by We produced gardens and harvest grain and tall palm-trees laden with clusters of fruit, piled one over another. This is the arrangement to provide food for the servants. With this water We revive a dead land.10 Such also will be the resurrection (of the dead from the earth)."11 Before them the people of Noah and the people of the Rass12 and Thamud also denied, and so did `Ad and Pharaoh13 and the brethren of Lot and the dwellers of Aiykah and the people of Tubba`.14 15 Every one denied the Messengers,16 and consequently My scourge proved true against them.17 What! Were We powerless in case of the fast creation? Yet these people are in doubt concerning a new creation.18