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. |