It says...
It says: “And they said: ‘Why does he not bring us a sign (a miracle) from his Lord?’…” Then, the holy Qur’an immediately answers this question, implying that whether the clear news of the former nations, which had been mentioned in the former Divine Books, did not come to them that they repeatedly did pretext and asked for bringing miracles, and after when they saw those miracles they continued their disbelief and rejections for which the grievous punishment of Allah encompassed them.
Do they not know that if they pave the same way they will confront the same fate? The verse continues saying: “…Has there not come to them a clear proof of what is in the former Books?” Yes, there is the quality of the stubborn and proud persons that they put aside the clear existing proofs and miracles of the Qur’an and obstinately expect another miracle.
Why did You not send us a Messenger so that we might have followed Your Signs before that we were humiliated and disgraced.” The mission of the prophets to prophethood has been for completing the argument so that people may not pretext their own unawareness. Therefore, these seekers of pretexts are not some people who seek the Truth. They are ceaselessly in the thought of seeking a…