Explanation of the polytheists' rejection

Yet no sign of their Lord comes to them but they turn away from it.

So they disbelieved the truth when it came to them; but they will soon come to know the reality of what they had ridiculed.

Do they not see how many generations We laid low before them, whom We had firmly established in the land as We have not established you, and showered abundant rain on them, and made rivers lap at their feet, yet whom We destroyed for their sins, and raised new generations after them?

Even if We had sent you a transcript on paper which they could feel with their hands, the unbelievers would have said: "This is nothing but clear sorcery."

They say: "How is it no angel was sent down to him?" Had We sent an angel down the matter would have come to end, and they would have had no respite.

Even if We had sent down an angel as messenger he would have appeared in the garb of a man and filled them with confusion, like the one they are filled with.

Surely the apostles have been mocked before you; but what they had mocked rebounded on the mockers themselves.

Say: "Travel in the land and see what happened to those who disbelieved."