How to Argue the Disavowal of Pagans

AL-ISRA (ISRA', THE NIGHT JOURNEY, CHILDREN OF ISRAEL) : 49-57

17:49. They say: "What! when we are reduced to bones and dust, should we really be raised up (to be) a new creation?"

17:50. Say: "(Nay!) be ye stones or iron,
17:51. "Or created matter which, in your minds, is hardest (to be raised up),- (Yet shall ye be raised up)!" then will they say: "Who will cause us to return?" Say: "He who created you first!" Then will they wag their heads towards thee, and say, "When will that be?" Say, "May be it will be quite soon!

17:52. "It will be on a Day when He will call you, and ye will answer (His call) with (words of) Hiraise, and ye will think that ye tarried but a little while!"
17:53. Say to My servants that they should (only) say those things that are best: for Satan doth sow dissensions among them: For Satan is to man an avowed enemy.

17:54. It is your Lord that knoweth you best: If He please, He granteth you mercy, or if He please, punishment: We have not sent thee to be a disposer of their affairs for them.
17:55. And it is your Lord that knoweth best all beings that are in the heavens and on earth: We did bestow on some prophets more (and other) gifts than on others: and We gave to David (the gift of) the Psalms.

17:56. Say: "Call on those - besides Him - whom ye fancy: they have neither the power to remove your troubles from you nor to change them."
17:57. Those whom they call upon do desire (for themselves) means of access to their Lord, - even those who are nearest: they hope for His Mercy and fear His Wrath: for the Wrath of thy Lord is something to take heed of.