۞ قَٰلَ أَوَلَوْ جِئْتُكُم بِأَهْدَىٰ مِمَّا وَجَدتُّمْ عَلَيْهِ ءَابَآءَكُمْ ۖ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا بِمَآ أُرْسِلْتُم بِهِۦ كَٰفِرُونَ
Qaala awa law ji'tukum bi ahdaa mimmaa wajattum 'alaihi aabaaa'akum qaalooo innaa bimaaa ursiltum bihee kaafiroon
[Each warner] said, "Even if I brought you better guidance than that [religion] upon which you found your fathers?" They said, "Indeed we, in that with which you were sent, are disbelievers."
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43:24Ayah 189
16 ayahs in Az-Zukhruf are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
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Say to them ‘What! Will you follow them even if I bring you a better means to guidance than what you found your fathers following?’ They say ‘Lo! we disbelieve in what you and those before you are sent with’. God exalted be He says to them as a threat to them
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