Qur'an

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the MercifulPraise be to Allah, Who hath created the heavens and the earth, and hath appointed darkness and light. Yet those who disbelieve ascribe rivals unto their Lord. He it is Who hath created you from clay, and hath decreed a term for you. A term is fixed with Him. Yet still ye doubt! _ He is Allah in the heavens and in the earth. He knoweth both your secret and your utterance, and He knoweth what ye earn. _ Never came there unto them a revelation of the revelations of Allah but they did turn away from it. _ And they denied the truth when it came unto them. But there will come unto them the tidings of that which they used to deride._ See they not how many a generation We destroyed before them, whom We had established in the earth more firmly than We have established you, and We shed on them abundant showers from the sky, and made the rivers flow beneath them. Yet we destroyed them for their sins, and created after them another generation