Quran page 518

Qaf. By the glorious Quran.

Indeed they consider it odd that a warner from among themselves should have come to them. So the faithless say, ‘This is an odd thing.’

‘What! When we are dead and have become dust, [shall we be raised again]? That is a far-fetched return!’

We know what the earth diminishes from them, and with Us is a preserving Book.

Indeed, they denied the truth when it came to them; so they are now in a perplexed state of affairs.

Have they not, then, observed the heaven above them, how We have built it and adorned it, and that there are no cracks in it?

And We spread out the earth, and cast in it firm mountains, and caused every delightful kind [of vegetation] to grow in it.

[In this there is] an insight and admonition for every penitent servant.

We send down from the sky salubrious water, with which We grow gardens and the grain which is harvested,

and tall date palms with regularly set spathes,

as a provision for Our servants, and with it We revive a dead country. Likewise will be the rising [from the dead].

The people of Noah denied before them, and [so did] the people of Rass and Thamud,

and ‘Ad, Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lot,

and the inhabitants of Aykah and the people of Tubbac. Each [of them] impugned the apostles, and so My threat became due [against them].

Have We been exhausted by the first creation? No, they are in doubt about a new creation.