BrotherZak
Junior Member
Therefore remind! By Your Lord’s blessing you are not a soothsayer, neither possessed. Or do they say, ‘He is a poet for whom we await what fate will bring?’ Say: ‘Await! I shall be waiting with you.’ Or do their intellects bid them to do this? Or are they an insolent, rebellious people? Or do they say, ‘He has invented it?’ Nay, but they do not believe. Then let them bring a discourse like it, if they speak truly. Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they have not sure faith. Or are your Lord’s treasuries in their keeping? Or are they the watching registrars? Or have they a ladder whereon they listen? Then let any of them that listened bring a clear authority. Or has He daughters, and they sons? Or ask you them for a wage, and so they are weighed down with debt? Or is the Unseen in their keeping, and so they are writing it down? Or do they intend a plot? But those who unbelieve, are they the outwitted? Or have they a god, other than God? Glory be to God, above that which they associate! (52:29-43)
This is the longest sequence in the Quran where God ridicules the disbelievers and knocks down all their arguments! It uses the technique of rhetorical questions so eloquently.