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)

And He it is Who sends the winds as heralds of glad tidings, going before His mercy, and We send down pure water from the sky,- (48)

That with it We may give life to a dead land, and slake the thirst of things We have created,- cattle and men in great numbers. (49)

And We have distributed the (water) amongst them, in order that they may celebrate (our) praises, but most men are averse (to aught) but (rank) ingratitude. (50)