We gave an excellent abode95 to the children of Israel and provided them with the best things of life. Then they caused not dissensions among themselves until the knowledge had come to them.96 Surely your Lord will decide between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that in which they had been differing. If you are in doubt regarding the Guidance We have sent down to you, you may inquire about this from those people who have been reading the Scriptures before you. In fact, it is the very Truth that has come to you from your Lord; so be not of those who doubt and join not those who treat Allah's Revelations as false; otherwise you shall be of the losers.97 The fact is that whatsoever Signs are shown to those who have fallen under Allah's decree,98 they will not believe till they see the painful torment. Then, is there any instance of a habitation that, seeing the torment, accepted the faith and that faith profited it? (There is no instance of this) except that of Jonah's people.99 When they believed, We warded off the torment of ignominy from them in this worldly life100 and allowed them to make use of the things of life for a while.101 Had your Lord willed (that all the people of the world should be believers), all the dwellers of the earth would have believed in Him102 Will you, then, force the people to become believers?103 No one can believe without Allah's permission,104 and it is the way of Allah that He throws filth on those who do not use their commonsense.105 Say to them, "Make a keen observation of all that is in the heavens and the earth." And (the fact is that) the Signs and warnings are of no avail to those who would not believe.106 Now what do they wait for but the evil days that befell the peoples before them? Say to them, "Well, wait and see, I, too, wait with you." Then, (when such a time comes), We deliver Our Messengers and those who believed in them-This is Our Way: We have laid it on Ourselves to deliver the believers.