As also 'Ad and Thamud, and the Companions of the Rass, and many a generation between them. (38)

To each one We set forth Parables and examples; and each one We broke to utter annihilation (for their sins). (39)

And the (Unbelievers) must indeed have passed by the town on which was rained a shower of evil: did they not then see it (with their own eyes)? But they fear not the Resurrection. (40)

When they see thee, they treat thee no otherwise than in mockery: "Is this the one whom Allah has sent as a messenger?" (41)

"He indeed would well-nigh have misled us from our gods, had it not been that we were constant to them!" - Soon will they know, when they see the Penalty, who it is that is most misled in Path! (42)

Seest thou such a one as taketh for his god his own passion (or impulse)? Couldst thou be a disposer of affairs for him? (43)

Or thinkest thou that most of them listen or understand? They are only like cattle;- nay, they are worse astray in Path. (44)

Hast thou not turned thy vision to thy Lord?- How He doth prolong the shadow! If He willed, He could make it stationary! then do We make the sun its guide; (45)

Then We draw it in towards Ourselves,- a contraction by easy stages. (46)

And He it is Who makes the Night as a Robe for you, and Sleep as Repose, and makes the Day (as it were) a Resurrection. (47)