Originator - 35:39
He has made you rulers in the earth. Whoever disbelieves, disbelieves to his own detriment. The disbelief of the disbelievers does not increase anything but hatred in the sight of their Lord. The disbelief of the disbelievers increases nothing but loss
How did the people of Makkah reject Muhammad (pbuh) and thus the Qur'an?
The Cow/2:91
"When it is said to them, "Believe in what Allah has sent down,"they say, "We believe in what has been sent down to us,"and deny what follows. But this is the truth confirming what is with them. Say, "Why did you kill the messengers of Allah before, if you believed?"
The Night Journey/17:90
"They said: "We will not believe in you until you make a spring spring up for us from the earth."
The Night Journey/17:93
"Or you should have a house of gold, or you should ascend to heaven. Even if you ascend, we will not believe in it until you send down upon us a Book that we may read."Say: "Great is my Lord. Am I but a human being, a messenger?"
The Rocky Tract/15:6
"They said: "O you who have been sent down the Message, you are a madman."
The Criterion/25:41
"Whenever they see you, they ridicule you: "Is this the one whom Allah has sent as a messenger?"
The Criterion/25:42
"Had we not resisted, he would almost have led us astray from our gods."When they see the torment, they will know who is truly astray."
The Ornaments of Gold/43:31
"They said: "Should not this Qur´an have been sent down to a famous and great man from those two cities?"
Sheva/34:31
"The disbelievers said, "We do not believe in this Qur´an nor in what was before it."If you could have seen the wrongdoers quarreling with each other in the trial before their Lord! Those who are disempowered (in learning, research, economics, politics, etc.) say to the arrogant ones, "If it were not for you, we would have been believers"."
The Mountain/52:30
"Or do they say, "He is a poet, we are waiting for him to die"?"
The Mountain/52:31
"Say, "Wait; I am waiting with you."
The Spoils of War/8:31
"When they listened to Our Verses, they said, "We have heard,"and they said, "We could bring the like of it if we wished. This is nothing but the legends of the past."
The Bee/16:103
"Surely we know what they say, "A man is teaching him". The language of the one they intend is a foreign language, while this is a clear Arabic language."
The Prophets/21:5
"They even said, "It is a vain imagination,"and, "He has fabricated it,"and, "He is a poet; let him bring us miracles like the messengers of old."
The Believers/23:68
Have they not examined the Word, or has something come to them which did not come to their ancestors of the past?
The Believers/23:69
Or do they disbelieve because they do not recognize the messenger sent to them?
The Believers/23:70
Or have they decided that he is mad? Yet he brought them the truth. But most of them do not like the truth.
The Criterion/25:4
"Those who disbelieved said, "This is nothing but a lie invented by him with the help of others"."
The Criterion/25:5
"They said, "What he writes is the fables of the ancients, dictated to him day and night."
The Smoke/44:13
They paid no heed to the Message. Yet a clear messenger had come to them.
The Smoke/44:14
"Then they turned away from him and said, "A learned madman!"