اَلَمْ یَرَوْا كَمْ اَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُمْ مِّنَ الْقُرُوْنِ اَنَّهُمْ اِلَیْهِمْ لَا یَرْجِعُوْنَؕ۝۳۱

Have they not seen how many generations have We destroyed before them who will not return again?

وَ اِنْ كُلٌّ لَّمَّا جَمِیْعٌ لَّدَیْنَا مُحْضَرُوْنَ۠۝۳۲

They will all be brought together before Us.

وَ اٰیَةٌ لَّهُمُ الْاَرْضُ الْمَیْتَةُ ۖۚ اَحْیَیْنٰهَا وَ اَخْرَجْنَا مِنْهَا حَبًّا فَمِنْهُ یَاْكُلُوْنَ۝۳۳

There is a sign in the dead earth for them which We quicken, and produce from it grain which they eat.

وَ جَعَلْنَا فِیْهَا جَنّٰتٍ مِّنْ نَّخِیْلٍ وَّ اَعْنَابٍ وَّ فَجَّرْنَا فِیْهَا مِنَ الْعُیُوْنِۙ۝۳۴

We have laid out gardens of dates and grapes upon it, and made springs of water flow,

لِیَاْكُلُوْا مِنْ ثَمَرِهٖ ۙ وَ مَا عَمِلَتْهُ اَیْدِیْهِمْ ؕ اَفَلَا یَشْكُرُوْنَ۝۳۵

So that they may eat of its fruit; yet it was not done by their hands. Then why do they not acknowledge thanks?

سُبْحٰنَ الَّذِیْ خَلَقَ الْاَزْوَاجَ كُلَّهَا مِمَّا تُنْۢبِتُ الْاَرْضُ وَ مِنْ اَنْفُسِهِمْ وَ مِمَّا لَا یَعْلَمُوْنَ۝۳۶

All glory to Him who created pairs of everything that grows from the earth, and out of themselves, and other things they do not know.

وَ اٰیَةٌ لَّهُمُ الَّیْلُ ۖۚ نَسْلَخُ مِنْهُ النَّهَارَ فَاِذَا هُمْ مُّظْلِمُوْنَۙ۝۳۷

And there is a sign in the night for them. We strip off the day from it and they are left in darkness,

وَ الشَّمْسُ تَجْرِیْ لِمُسْتَقَرٍّ لَّهَا ؕ ذٰلِكَ تَقْدِیْرُ الْعَزِیْزِ الْعَلِیْمِؕ۝۳۸

While the sun keeps revolving in its orbit. This is the dispensation of the mighty, all-knowing (God).

وَ الْقَمَرَ قَدَّرْنٰهُ مَنَازِلَ حَتّٰی عَادَ كَالْعُرْجُوْنِ الْقَدِیْمِ۝۳۹

We have determined the stations of the moon, so that (after its wanderings) it returns as a dried up inflorescent spike of dates.

لَا الشَّمْسُ یَنْۢبَغِیْ لَهَاۤ اَنْ تُدْرِكَ الْقَمَرَ وَ لَا الَّیْلُ سَابِقُ النَّهَارِ ؕ وَ كُلٌّ فِیْ فَلَكٍ یَّسْبَحُوْنَ۝۴۰

Neither can the sun overtake the moon, nor the night outpace the day: Each of them keeps coursing in its orbit.