(23:29) And say, `My Lord, let me land at a blessed landing place, and You are the best to accommodate [us].` " (23:30) Indeed in that are signs, and indeed, We are ever testing [Our servants]. (23:31) Then We produced after them a generation of others. (23:32) And We sent among them a messenger from themselves, [saying], "Worship Allah; you have no deity other than Him; then will you not fear Him?" (23:33) And the eminent among his people who disbelieved and denied the meeting of the Hereafter while We had given them luxury in the worldly life said, "This is not but a man like yourselves. He eats of that from which you eat and drinks of what you drink. (23:34) And if you should obey a man like yourselves, indeed, you would then be losers. (23:35) Does he promise you that when you have died and become dust and bones that you will be brought forth [once more]? (23:36) How far, how far, is that which you are promised. (23:37) Life is not but our worldly life - we die and live, but we will not be resurrected. (23:38) He is not but a man who has invented a lie about Allah, and we will not believe him." (23:39) He said, "My Lord, support me because they have denied me." (23:40) [Allah] said, "After a little, they will surely become regretful." (23:41) So the shriek seized them in truth, and We made them as [plant] stubble. Then away with the wrongdoing people. (23:42) Then We produced after them other generations.
