:44. It is Allah Who alternates the Night and the Day: verily in these things is an instructive example for those who have vision!
:45. And Allah has created every animal from water: of them there are some that creep on their bellies; some that walk on two legs; and some that walk on four. Allah creates what He wills for verily Allah has power over all things.
:46. We have indeed sent down signs that make things manifest: and Allah guides whom He wills to a way that is straight.
:47. They say, "We believe in Allah and in the messenger, and we obey": but even after that, some of them turn away: they are not (really) Believers.
:48. When they are summoned to Allah and His messenger, in order that He may judge between them, behold some of them decline (to come).
:49. But if the right is on their side, they come to him with all submission.
:50. Is it that there is a disease in their hearts? or do they doubt, or are they in fear, that Allah and His Messenger will deal unjustly with them? Nay, it is they themselves who do wrong.
:51. The answer of the Believers, when summoned to Allah and His Messenger, in order that He may judge between them, is no other than this: they say, "We hear and we obey": it is such as these that will attain felicity.
:52. It is such as obey Allah and His Messenger, and fear Allah and do right, that will win (in the end),
:53. They swear their strongest oaths by Allah that, if only thou wouldst command them, they would leave (their homes). Say: "Swear ye not; Obedience is (more) reasonable; verily, Allah is well acquainted with all that ye do."
