32 And those who disbelieve say: Why has not the Qur’ān been revealed to him all at once? Thus, that We may strengthen thy heart thereby and We have arranged it well in arranging.

33 And they cannot bring thee a question, but We have brought thee the truth and the best explanation.

34 Those who will be gathered to hell on their faces — they are in an evil plight and straying farther away from the path.

35 And certainly We gave Moses the Book and We appointed with him his brother Aaron, an aider.

36 Then We said: Go you both to the people who reject Our messages. So We destroyed them with utter destruction.

37 And the people of Noah, when they rejected the messengers, We drowned them, and made them a sign for men. And We have prepared a painful chastisement for the wrongdoers —

38 And ‘Ād and Thamūd and the dwellers of Rass and many generations in between.

39 And to each We gave examples and each did We destroy with utter destruction.

40 And indeed they pass by the town wherein was rained an evil rain. Do they not see it? Nay, they hope not to be raised again.

41 And when they see thee, they take thee for naught but a jest: Is this he whom Allāh has raised to be a messenger?

42 He had well-nigh led us astray from our gods had we not adhered to them patiently! And they will know, when they see the chastisement, who is more astray from the path.

43 Hast thou seen him who takes his low desires for his god? Wilt thou be a guardian over him?

44 Or thinkest thou that most of them hear or understand? They are but as the cattle; nay, they are farther astray from the path.

45 Seest thou not how thy Lord extends the shade? And if He pleased, He would have made it stationary. Then We have made the sun an indication of it,

46 Then We take it to Ourselves, taking little by little.