CAUSE OF THE REVEALTION (VERSE NO. 109)

      A group of the QURAISH said to the prophet:

      ``You seriously state that your preceding prophets have had wonderful miracles such as curing uncurable diseases, and raising the dead and so and so. If you are really a prophet like them, then bring us some miracles like these which they have brought.''

      The prophet said to them: ``What do you want me to do for you?'' They said:``Turn the mount Safa into gold, or raise up some of our dead ancestors so that we may ask them about you and the life to come, or make us to see the angels with our own eyes.''

      The prophet said again: ``And if I do some of what you ask for, do you then believe in God and His truth?''

      They swore by Allah solemnly that, if such signs that they ask for, come to them they would certainly believe in it. Allah inspired to His prophet that they are liars - If you want to ask me to do that I will do it for your sake, but of surety they will not believe even after that! And then for their rejection, after having seen evidences by their physical eyes, I shall destroy them all - Such is My unchangeable method and rule. But if you leave them to themselves, later on a group of them will eventually believe in your mission and in Me.

      So the prophet decided to leave them alone. Later, many of them repented and were true converts.