84 Preface وَيَومَ نَبعَثُ مِن كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ شَهيدًا ثُمَّ لا يُؤذَنُ لِلَّذينَ كَفَروا وَلا هُم يُستَعتَبونَYusuf AliOne Day We shall raise from all Peoples a Witness:1 then will no excuse be accepted from Unbelievers, nor will they receive any favours.(2122- A###)To each People is sent God’s Messenger or Teacher, to point out the right way. There may be one, or there may be many. Such a Messenger (Rasu1) will be a witness that God’s Truth was preached to all peoples in express terms, in addition to the Signs of God everywhere in nature. There will then be no room for excuses of any kind. Those who rejected God after repeated warnings cannot reasonably ask for more respite, as they had every kind of respite during their life of probation; nor can they now take refuge behind God’s Grace, which they had repeatedly rejected.