Did they not see how many generations We have destroyed before them who will not come back to them?

And all of them are but to be assembled together (and) to be arraigned before Us.

And a sign for them is the dead land. We gave it life and brought forth grain from it; so from it they eat.

And We have placed gardens of date-palms and grapes and caused springs to gush forth therein,

so that they may eat fruits thereof, while it was not made by their hands. Would they not then offer gratitude?

Pure (from every fault) is the One who has created all the pairs of whatever the earth grows, and of the humans themselves, and of that which they do not know.

And a sign for them is the night. We strip the (cover on day from it, and they are suddenly in darkness.

And the sun is quickly proceeding towards its resting place. That is the designing of the All-Mighty, the All-Knowing.

And for the moon, We have appointed measured phases, until it turned (pale, curved and fine) like an old branch of date-palm.

Neither it is for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outpace the day. And each one is floating in an orbit.