31وَإِذا تُتلىٰ عَلَيهِم آياتُنا قالوا قَد سَمِعنا لَو نَشاءُ لَقُلنا مِثلَ هٰذا ۙ إِن هٰذا إِلّا أَساطيرُ الأَوَّلينَN. J. DawoodWhenever Our revelations are recited to them, they say: ‘We have heard them. If we wished, we could say the like: ‘They are but fables of the ancients.’