People's heedlessness of the hereafter and their turning away from the Quran

NEAR HAS COME the reckoning for men, but they turn away in remissness.

Never does a new reminder come to them from their Lord but they listen to it with dalliance.

Their minds are lost in frivolous pastimes; and the evil-doers discuss secretly: "Is he not but only a man like you? Then why are you taken in by magic seeingly?"

He said: "My Lord knows whatever is spoken in the heavens and the earth. He hears all and knows everything."

Yet they say: "These are only confused dreams," or rather: "He has invented them;" or: "He is only a poet. Let him therefore bring a miracle to us as the earlier (apostles) were sent with."

Not one habitation that We destroyed before them had believed. So how can they believe?