And when they see you, they take you as nothing but a laughing stock, (saying) "Is this the man whom Allah has sent as a messenger?

He would have almost led us astray from our gods, had we not been so firm towards them." And they will know when they will see the punishment, who is farther astray in his way.

Tell me about the one who has taken his desire as his god, would you then, become a guardian for him?

Or do you think that most of them listen or understand? They are nothing but like cattle. Rather, they are even farther astray in their way.

Have you not turned your vision to your Lord, how He prolonged the shadow? And if He so willed, He would have made it stand still. Then We made the sun an indicator for it.

Then We pulled it toward Us in a gradual manner.

And He is the One who has made the night an apparel for you, and the sleep a means of rest and has made the day a means of revival.

And He is the One who has sent the winds conveying good news before His mercy. And we have sent down purifying water from the heavens,

so that We revive a dead land therewith and give drink to the many cattle and humans We have created.

And We have distributed it (the water) among them, so that they may take lesson, then most of the people opted for nothing but ungratefulness.