الجاثية

The surah opens by listing signs — in your own creation, in the animals spread across the earth, in the alternation of night and day, in rain that revives dead land, in the shifting of the winds — and calls them, three times over, *signs for a people who reason*.

Then it names the position it is arguing against, quoting it exactly: *"There is nothing but our worldly life; we die and we live, and nothing destroys us except time."*

And it delivers the sharpest diagnosis in the Quran of what actually happens when a person refuses: *"Have you seen the one who takes his own desire as his god?"* Not an idol of stone. Wanting, made into a deity.