How the people suspected the prophets.

The people said, “All this is fraud and deceit: how should God make a vicar of Zayd and Bakr?

Every king's messenger must be of his (the king's) kind: where are water and clay in comparison with the Creator of the heavens?

Have we eaten ass's brains that we, like you, should deem a gnat to be the confidant of the humá?

Where is a gnat in comparison with the humá? Where is earth in comparison with God? What relation to the mote has the sun in the sky?

What resemblance is this, and what connexion is this, that it should enter into any mind and brain?