"Has not the story reached you, [O people!], of those who [went] before you? - of the people of Noah, and 'Ad, and Thamud? - And of those who [came] after them? None knows them but Allah. To them came messengers with Clear [Signs]; but they put their hands up to their mouths, and said: "We do deny [the mission] on which ye have been sent, and we are really in suspicious [disquieting] doubt as to that to which ye invite us.""— Yusuf Ali translation