Messengers remind people of God's laws and mention no other name besides God, and when a community rebels against them, retribution comes to it quickly.1, 2, 3
Those who claim to believe only in what was revealed to them reject later scripture though they know it is the truth, and they are asked why they killed God's prophets if they were believers.1, 2, 3
When a messenger came confirming their scripture, some followers of previous scripture disregarded this scripture as if they knew nothing.1
Satan is a liar who deceived Adam and Eve with false advice, and those fighting the truth lie constantly because they follow their teacher Satan, arguing with falsehood as past communities did.1, 2, 3, 4
The people of Thamud rejected Saleh, slaughtered the camel sent as a test, and were destroyed by one strike.1, 2, 3
People who refused to follow humans like themselves erred, because messengers are not followed; God's instructions are followed, and the messenger himself must follow them.1, 2, 3
Thamud disobeyed God's messenger, slaughtered God's camel, and were annihilated, and we are told to learn from such examples.1, 2, 3
A man who has lived among his people for years and is known not to be crazy, yet claims to be God's messenger, is either truly God's messenger or a very bad person, with nothing in between.1, 2, 3, 4
People reject God's revelations not because they do not understand them but out of sheer resentment that God bestows His grace on whomever He chooses.1, 2
Those who reject the messenger of the covenant would have been the first to fight the Prophet Muhammad had they lived in his time, like Abu Lahab, the religious leader of his day.1, 2, 3
Disbelievers reject the truth because they never heard it from the religion of their fathers, so one needs an open mind and free reason rather than blindly following parents.1, 2, 3
Those who oppose God and His messenger are doomed like those before them, and the disbelievers in God's clear revelations deserve painful retribution.1, 2
Anyone or any society that opposes God and His messenger will eventually be wiped out and defeated, as recorded in the Quran.1, 2
In hell the disbelievers confess that a warner came but they disbelieved, which mirrors what most people say today when shown the word of God.1, 2
Whoever sees the message of God alone bears double responsibility: accepting it keeps Satan's protection away, while rejecting it gives up God's protection.1, 2, 3, 4
A man who claims to be God's messenger while not being one would have to be crazy, so if people have known him for years and know he is sane, he is either God's messenger or a very bad person.1, 2, 3, 4
God's system never changes, and what happened with Noah and the earlier messengers is happening again right now with the same message and the same consequences.1, 2, 3
Hud told the people of Aad to worship God alone, and their disbelieving leaders called him foolish and a liar.1, 2, 3, 4
Noah, the first prophet after Adam, told his people to worship God alone, and they called him far astray.1, 2, 3, 4
The retribution for rejecting this present message is far worse because of the strength of the miracle, the clarity of the message, and the sophistication and education of the people.1, 2, 3
Everyone who advocates God faces the same difficulties Noah faced; this is God's unchanging system and it happens with every message.1, 2, 3
The opposition is beginning to realize the significance of the message and has shifted from attacking it to a conspiracy of silence.1, 2
Moses asked his people why they hurt him though they knew he was God's messenger, and when they deviated God diverted their hearts, for God does not guide the wicked.1, 2, 3
God guided Muhammad to worship God alone, and when he preached it his people persecuted him and tried to prove him a fake, for example by asking about the phases of the moon.1, 2, 3, 4
People wrongly refuse to follow human messengers, because messengers are not the ones being followed; God's instructions are, and the messenger himself must follow them.1, 2, 3
Every past nation that disbelieved its messengers incurred inevitable retribution.1
Verse 42:13 explains the hostility: God decreed the same religion for Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, and idol worshipers resent the call to worship God alone.1, 2, 3, 4
People said Joseph was the last messenger, yet great messengers came after him, showing a human tendency now repeated in calling Muhammad the last messenger.1, 2, 3
Many past people disbelieved because they refused to accept a human being as God's messenger.1, 2, 3
People oppose those who simply call to worship God alone because that message purifies, which shows that the human being is basically bad.1, 2
As sura 17 verse 94 says, what stopped people from believing was that God sent a human messenger, and the announcement of the messenger sifts away believers who drop out.1, 2, 3
When one preaches the Quran alone, people do not like it.1
His opponents cannot claim Muhammad is the last messenger or offer any proof, and can only call him names, exactly the names the Quran foretells such as kazzab in surahs 38 and 54.1, 2, 3, 4
Ego is what keeps millions from Heaven and the only reason some rejected his messengership, since God gave much evidence for it and none against it.1, 2, 3