Saba
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[34:45]
Thus, too, gave the lie to the truth [many of] those who lived before them; and although those [earlier people] had not attained to even a tenth of [the evidence of the truth] which We have vouchsafed unto these [late successors of theirs], yet when they gave the lie to My apostles, how awesome was My rejection!

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* v.45 : Sc., “And how much worse will fare the deniers of the truth to whom so explicit and so comprehensive a divine writ as the Qur’ān has been conveyed!” My rendering of the whole of this verse is based on Rāzī’s interpretation, which differs from that of most of the other commentators.