K. By the glorious Korān. Nay, they marvel that a warner from among themselves hath come to them: and the unbelievers say, “This is a marvellous thing! When we are dead and are become dust!--that is a far-fetched return!” We know what the earth consumeth of them, and with us is a book that keepeth count. Nay, they called the truth a lie when it came to them, but they are in a perplexed state. Will they not look up to the heaven above them, how we built it, and beautified it, and there are no flaws therein? And we spread out the earth, and cast stable mountains upon it, and caused to grow there plants of all beauteous kinds, For consideration and warning to every repentant servant. And we sent down water from heaven as a blessing, and caused thereby gardens and harvest grain to grow, And tall palm-trees with spathes heaped up, A provision for our servants; and revived thereby a barren land. Like that shall the resurrection be. Before them the people of Noah and the people of Er-Rass and Thamūd called the prophets liars, And Ad, and Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lot, and the people of the grove, and the people of Tubba´--one and all called the apostles liars,--and found the threat true. Were we then impotent as to the first creation? yet they are in doubt about a new creation. We created man, and we know what his soul whispereth, and we are nearer to him than his jugular vein.