43.21 . Or have We given them any Scripture before ( this Quran ) so that they are holding fast thereto?

43.22 . Nay , for they say only : Lo! we found our fathers following a religion , and we are guided by their footprints .

43.23 . And even so We sent not a warner before thee ( Muhammad ) into any township but its luxurious ones said : Lo! we found our fathers following a religion , and we are following their footprints .

43.24 . ( And the warner ) said : What! Even though I bring you better guidance than that ye found your fathers following? They answered : Lo! in what ye bring we are disbelievers .

43.25 . So We requited them . Then see the nature of the consequence for the rejecters!

43.26 . And when Abraham said unto his father and his folk : Lo! I am innocent of what ye worship

43.27 . Save Him Who did create me , for He will surely guide me .

43.28 . And he made It a word enduring among his seed , that haply they might return .

43.29 . Nay , but I let these and their fathers enjoy life ( only ) till there should come unto them the Truth and a messenger making plain .

43.30 . And now that the Truth hath come unto them they say : This is mere magic , and lo! we are disbelievers therein .

43.31 . And they say : If only thin Quran had been revealed to some great man of the two towns?

43.32 . Is it they who apportion their Lord ' s mercy? We have apportioned among them their livelihood in the life of the world , and raised some of them above others in rank that some of them may take labor from others ; and the mercy of thy Lord is better than ( the wealth ) that they amass .

43.33 . And were it not that mankind would have become one community , We might well have appointed , for those who disbelieve in the Beneficent , roofs of silver for their houses and stairs ( of silver ) whereby to mount ,

43.34 . And for their houses doors ( of silver ) and couches of silver whereon to recline ,

43.35 . And ornaments of gold . Yet all that would have been but a provision of the life of the world . And the Hereafter with your Lord would have been for those who keep from evil .

43.36 . And he whose sight is dim to the remembrance of the Beneficent , We assign unto him a devil who becometh his comrade ;

43.37 . And lo! they surely turn them from the way of Allah , and yet they deem that they are rightly guided ;

43.38 . Till , when he cometh unto Us , he saith ( unto his comrade ) : Ah , would that between me and thee there were the distance of the two horizons , an evil comrade!

43.39 . And it profiteth you not this day , because ye did wrong , that ye will be sharers in the doom .

43.40 . Canst thou ( Muhammad ) make the deaf to hear , or canst thou guide the blind or him who is in error manifest?