2/Al-Baqarah-17: Their likeness (condition) is as the likeness of one who kindled a fire; then, when it lighted all around him, Allah took away their light and left them in darkness. (So) they could not see.
2/Al-Baqarah-18: (They are) deaf, dumb (and) blind, so they do not return (to their Lord).
2/Al-Baqarah-19: Or like (the one exposed to) a rainstorm from the sky, wherein is darkness and thunder and lightning; they put their fingers into their ears for fear of Allah and Allah encompasses the disbelievers.
2/Al-Baqarah-20: The lightning almost takes away (dazzles) their sight; whenever it flashes for them, they walk in it, and when it becomes dark to them they stand still; and if Allah had willed He would certainly have taken away their hearing and their sight; surely Allah has power over all things.
2/Al-Baqarah-21: O men (mankind)! Serve (be servants to) your Lord Who created you and those before you, so that you may become the pious [(Al-Muttakûn, the possessors of the piety (Takvâ)].
2/Al-Baqarah-22: Who made the earth a bed (a resting place) for you, and the heaven (the sky) a canopy (edifice), and it is He who sends down water (rain) from the sky, then brings forth with it subsistence for you of the fruits; and do not set up rivals to Allah knowingly [while you know (that He Alone has the right to be served, worshipped)].
2/Al-Baqarah-23: And if you are in doubt as to that which We have sent down to Our servant, then produce a Sûrah (chapter) of the like thereof and call your witnesses (who are) apart from Allah, if you are truthful.
2/Al-Baqarah-24: But if you cannot do it-and you can never do it, then guard yourselves against the Fire (Hell) whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers (unbelievers).
