Have you not received accounts of what befell those who lived before you? The people of Noah, the [Ad, and Thamud, and those who came after them? None knows them all but God. Their messengers came to them with clear evidence of the truth, but they put their hands to their mouths, and said: ‘We disbelieve in that with which you have been sent, and we are in grave doubt about that to which you call us’.