Suad.1 By the Qur'an which is full of admonition.2 But the people who have disbelieved, are themselves involved in sheer arrogance and stubbornness.3 How many a nation have we destroyed before them! (And when their doom approached) they cried out, but that was not the time of being saved. These people wondered that a warner from among themselves has come to them.4 The disbelievers began to say, "He is a sorcerer,5 a liar! Has he made just One God in place of all the gods? This is indeed a strange thing!" And their chiefs went away,6 saying, "Go and stand firm in the service of your gods; for this thing7 is being said with a purpose.8 We have not heard such a thing from anyone of the people of latter days.9 This is nothing but a fabrication. Was he the only (fit) person among us to whom Allah's Admonition should have been sent down?" The fact of the matter is that they doubt My "Admonition",10 and they say this because they have not yet tasted My punishment. Do they possess the treasures of the mercy of your Mighty and Bounteous Lord? Do they own the heavens and the earth and all that is between them? If so, let them climb up to the heights of the worldly means!11 This is a small host from among the hosts, which shall be routed here.12 Before them did the people of Noah and 'Ad and the Pharaoh of the stakes,13 and Thamud, and the people of Lot and those of Aiykah reject (the Messengers). Hosts were they. Each one of them treated the Messengers as liars, and justly deserved the decree of My chastisement. These people too await but a single blast after which there will be no other blast!14 And they say; "Our Lord, hasten to us our share even before the Day of Reckoning."15