The Stubbornness of the Idolators; Their Punishment Allah the Exalted reaffirms the stubbornness of the idolators and their ignorance of what goes around them,وَإِن يَرَوْا كِسْفًا مِّنَ السَّمَاء سَاقِطًا يَقُولُوا سَحَابٌ مَّرْكُومٌAnd if they were to see a piece of the heaven falling down, they would say:"Clouds gathered in heaps!"meaning, on them as punishment, they would not believe it is coming their way, saying that, these are layers of clouds on top of each other.Allah the Exalted said in other Ayat,وَلَوْ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِم بَاباً مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ فَظَلُّواْ فِيهِ يَعْرُجُونَلَقَالُواْ إِنَّمَا سُكِّرَتْ أَبْصَـرُنَا بَلْ نَحْنُ قَوْمٌ مَّسْحُورُونَAnd even if We opened to them a gate from the heaven and they were to keep on ascending thereto (all day long), they would surely say (in the evening):"Our eyes have been dazzled. Nay, we are a people bewitched." (15:14-15)Allah the Exalted said