WHAT, THEN, is amiss with such as are bent on denying the truth, that they run about confusedly to and fro before thee, 36 [coming upon thee] from the right and from the left, in crowds? 37 Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure? 38 By no means! For We have created them out of the (base matter) they know! 39 No! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and Wests, surely We are able 40 to exchange them with others better than they; nothing can outstrip Us! 41 (Muhammad), leave them alone to dispute and play until they face the Day with which they have been threatened: 42 the Day on which they will hastily come forth from their graves, as though they were hurrying on to the altars of their deities. 43 humbled their eyes, overspreading them abasement. That is the day which they were promised. 44