But you are a prodigal people’.
But you are a prodigal people’.” This verse indicates that not only those blind-hearted people did not submit before that clear logic and those miracles, but also they increased their hardship and went beyond the stage of rejection and reached the stage of threat and vehemence of action, as the Qur’an says: “(The pagans told the prophets:) ‘For us, we augur an evil omen from you…” Perhaps, simultaneous to the time of the advent of these Divine prophets, some difficulties appeared in the life of the people of that area as the result of their sins or as a Divine warning, as some commentators have also cited that the rain ceased to fall for a length of time[^1], but not only they did not take a lesson from it, but also they related that event to the invitation of the prophets.
They did not even suffice it, but by the manifest threat they showed their evil and ugly intentions, and said: “…if you do not desist, we will certainly stone you, and there shall certainly afflict you a painful chastisement from us’.” Yes, when the adherents of wrong and the supporters of injustice and corruption have not any acceptable logic, they always rely on some…