Mealler

When Our signs are recited to them, they say, "We have listened, and if we wish, we could have said the same thing. This is nothing but tales of the ancients!"

They said, "Our god, if this is the truth from You, then send down upon us a rain of stones from the sky or bring on us a painful retribution."

But God was not to punish them while you are with them, nor will God punish them while they continue to seek forgiveness.

Why should God not punish them when they are turning others away from the Restricted Temple, and they were never its protectors! Its protectors are the righteous. But most of them do not know.

Their contact prayer at the sanctuary was nothing but deception/noise and aversion. Taste the retribution for what you have rejected.