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Surah 17. Al-Israa, Ayah 92

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أَوْ تُسْقِطَ ٱلسَّمَآءَ كَمَا زَعَمْتَ عَلَيْنَا كِسَفًا أَوْ تَأْتِىَ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ قَبِيلًا
Aw tusqi t a a l ssam a a kam a zaAAamta AAalayn a kisafan aw tatiya bi A ll a hi wa a lmal a ikati qabeel a n
or thou cause the skies to fall down upon us in smithereens, as thou hast threatened,108 or [till] thou bring God and the angels face to face before us,
  - Mohammad Asad

Lit., "claimed": possibly a reference to the warning expressed in {34: 9}, which was revealed somewhat earlier than the present surah.

or until you cause the sky to fall upon us in pieces as you have threatened us; or you bring Allah and the angels before us face to face,
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
or cause the sky to fall upon us in pieces, as you have claimed, or bring Allah and the angels before us, face to face,
  - Mustafa Khattab
Or thou cause the heaven to fall upon us piecemeal, as thou hast pretended, or bring Allah and the angels as a warrant;
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
"Or thou cause the sky to fall in pieces as thou sayest (will happen) against us; or thou bring Allah and the angels before (us) face to face; 2294 2295
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Contrast the sublime passages like the beginning with lxxxii. 1 or that in xxv. 25, where the final breaking up of the firmaments as we know them is referred to in the world's catastrophe, with the ridiculous demand that it should be done for the sport of the sceptics!

Cf. ii 55 and iv. 153 about the desire of the Israelites to see Allah face to face; and vi. 8-9, about angels coming down to convince men.

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