إِنَّ هَٰؤُلَاءِ لَيَقُولُونَ ٣٤
As to these (Quraish), they say forsooth:
44:35
إِنْ هِيَ إِلَّا مَوْتَتُنَا الْأُولَىٰ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمُنْشَرِينَ ٣٥
"There is nothing beyond our first death, and we shall not be raised again.
44:36
فَأْتُوا بِآبَائِنَا إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَ ٣٦
"Then bring (back) our forefathers, if what ye say is true!"
44:37
أَهُمْ خَيْرٌ أَمْ قَوْمُ تُبَّعٍ وَالَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ أَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا مُجْرِمِينَ ٣٧
What! Are they better than the people of Tubba and those who were before them? We destroyed them because they were guilty of sin.
44:38
وَمَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا لَاعِبِينَ ٣٨
We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, merely in (idle) sport: