39* To each one We set forth Parables and examples; and each one We broke to utter annihilation (for their sins).  
| |40* 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 expect not to be raised again.  
| |41* When they see thee, they treat thee no otherwise than in mockery: "Is this the one whom Allah has sent as a messenger?"  
| |42* "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 Chastisement, who it is that is most misled in Path!  
| |43* Seest thou such a one as taketh for his god his own passion (or impulse)? Couldst thou be a disposer of affairs for him?  
| |44* Or thinkest thou that most of them listen or understand? They are only like cattle;- nay, they are farther astray from the way.  
| |45* Hast thou not see how thy Lord?- How He doth prolong the shadow! If He willed, He could make it stationary! Then do We make the sun its guide;  
| |46* Then We draw it in towards Ourselves,- a contraction by easy stages.  
| |47* 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.  
| |48* 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,-  
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