Overall meaning : Now these Quraysh idolaters who deny the resurrection are saying, ‘We will die but one death, nor will we ever be raised to life again. Bring, then, our forefathers back to life if your claim that there is life after death is true!’
Are they better or the people of Tubba’, the King of Yemen, and those unbelievers who thrived before them and were far mightier? We destroyed them all, for they were wicked evildoers!
It was not in mere idle play that We created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them. We created them only for a true purpose, but most of them do not know.