:44. Or thinkest thou that most of them listen or understand? They are only like cattle;- nay, they are worse astray in Path.
:45. Hast thou not turned thy vision to 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,-
:49. That with it We may give life to a dead land, and slake the thirst of things We have created,- cattle and men in great numbers.
:50. And We have distributed the (water) amongst them, in order that they may celebrate (our) praises, but most men are averse (to aught) but (rank) ingratitude.
:51. Had it been Our Will, We could have sent a warner to every centre of population.
:52. Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but strive against them with the utmost strenuousness, with the (Qur'an).
:53. It is He Who has let free the two bodies of flowing water: One palatable and sweet, and the other salt and bitter; yet has He made a barrier between them, a partition that is forbidden to be passed.
:54. It is He Who has created man from water: then has He established relationships of lineage and marriage: for thy Lord has power (over all things).
:55. Yet do they worship, besides Allah, things that can neither profit them nor harm them: and the Misbeliever is a helper (of Evil), against his own Lord!
