30 Alas for the servants! Never does a messenger come to them but they mock him.

31 See they not how many generations We destroyed before them, that they return not to them?

32 And all — surely all — will be brought before Us.

33 And a sign to them is the dead earth: We give life to it and bring forth from it grain so they eat of it.

34 And We make therein gardens of date-palms and grapes and We make springs to flow forth therein,

35 That they may eat of the fruit thereof, and their hands made it not. Will they not then give thanks?

36 Glory be to Him Who created pairs of all things, of what the earth grows, and of their kind and of what they know not!

37 And a sign to them is the night: We draw forth from it the day, then lo! they are in darkness;

38 And the sun moves on to its destination. That is the ordinance of the Mighty, the Knower.

39 And the moon, We have ordained for it stages till it becomes again as an old dry palm-branch.

40 Neither is it for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day. And all float on in an orbit.

41 And a sign to them is that We bear their offspring in the laden ship,

42 And We have created for them the like thereof, whereon they ride.

43 And if We please, We may drown them, then there is no succour for them, nor can they be rescued —

44 But by mercy from Us and for enjoyment till a time.

45 And when it is said to them: Guard against that which is before you and that which is behind you, that mercy may be shown to you.

46 And there comes to them no message of the messages of their Lord but they turn away from it.