The Prophets
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[21:24]
and yet, they choose to worship [imaginary] deities instead of Him!
Say [O Prophet]: "Produce an evidence for what you are claiming: this is a reminder [unceasingly voiced] by those who are with me, just as it was a reminder [voiced] by those who came before me."
But nay, most of them do not know the truth, and so they stubbornly turn away [from it]

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* v.24 : See note 24 above.
* Lit., “produce your evidence,” i.e., for the existence of deities other than God, as well as for the intellectual and moral justification of worshipping anything but Him.
* I.e., the earlier prophets, the purport of whose messages was always the stress on the oneness of God.
* In other words, most people’s obstinate refusal to consider a reasonable proposition on its merits is often due to no more than the simple fact that it is not familiar to them.