Have 14 the accounts of your predecessors not reached you: the people of Noah, the Ad, the Thamud, and those who came after them - they whose number is not known to any except Allah? Their Messengers came to them with Clear Signs, but they thrust their hands in their mouths, 15 and said: "We do surely reject the Message you have brought, and we are in disquieting doubt about what 16 you are summoning us to."