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And those who do not expect to encounter Us, [those] who have no fear of the Resurrection, say, 'Why have the angels not been sent down to us, to act as messengers (rusul) to us, or why do we not see our Rabb?', so that we might be informed [by Him] that Muhammad "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" is [truly] His Messenger (rasūl)? Allahu ta’ālā, exalted be He, says: Assuredly they are full of arrogance within their souls and have become terribly insolent, in demanding to see Allahu ta’ālā, exalted be He, in this world (read 'utuwwan, 'insolence' with the wāw, according to the original root form, as opposed to 'itiyyan with the [yā'] substitution as in [sūrat] Maryam [Q. 19:8]).

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