And we send down from the Korān healing and mercy to the faithful; but it shall only add to the ruin of the wicked. And when we are gracious to man, he turneth away and standeth aloof; but when evil touches him he is in despair. Say: Every one doeth after his own fashion, but your Lord knoweth perfectly who is best guided on the road. And they will ask thee of the Spirit; Say: The Spirit cometh at my Lord’s behest, and ye are given but scant knowledge. And assuredly, if we pleased we could take away what we have revealed to thee: then wouldst thou not find for thyself a defender against us, Save in mercy from thy Lord; verily His bounty towards thee is great. Say: Surely if mankind and the Jinn united in order to produce the like of this Korān, they could not produce its like, though they helped one another. We have varied every kind of parable for men in this Korān, but most men consent only to discredit it. And they say, “We will by no means believe in thee till thou makest a spring to gush forth for us from the earth; Or till there cometh to thee a garden of palm-trees and grapes, and thou makest rivers to gush forth abundantly in its midst; Or thou make the heaven to fall down in pieces upon us, as thou pretendest; or bring God and the angels before us; Or thou have a house of gold; or thou ascend up into Heaven; and we will not believe in thy ascent until thou send down to us a book which we may read.” Say: Extolled be the glory of my Lord! Am I aught save a man, a messenger? And nothing prevented men from believing, when the guidance came to them, but their saying, “Hath God sent a mere man as a messenger?” Say: Had there been angels upon the earth walking at ease, we had surely sent them an angel from heaven as an apostle. Say: God is witness enough between me and you: verily He knoweth and seeth His servants. And whom God guideth, he is guided, and whom He misleadeth, thou shalt find him no protectors beside Him; and we will gather them on the day of Resurrection upon their faces, blind, and dumb, and deaf, hell is their abode; so oft as its fire dieth down, we will stir up the flame. This is their reward, for that they believed not our signs, and said, “When we are become bones and dust, shall we indeed be raised a new creature?” Do they not see that God, who created the heavens and the earth is able to create their likes? and He hath made an appointed term for them: there is no doubt of it; but the wicked consent only to deny it! Say: If ye possessed the treasures of the mercy of thy Lord, ye would then assuredly keep them, in fear of spending: for man is niggardly.