أَمْتَحْسَبُأَنَّأَكْثَرَهُمْيَسْمَعُونَأَوْيَعْقِلُونَ ۚإِنْهُمْإِلَّاكَٱلْأَنْعَـٰمِ ۖبَلْهُمْأَضَلُّسَبِيلًا٤٤

Or do you think that most of them hear or reason? They are not except like livestock.¹ Rather, they are [even] more astray in [their] way.

Have you not considered your Lord - how He extends the shadow, and if He willed, He could have made it stationary? Then We made the sun for it an indication.¹

Then We [retract and] hold it with Us for a brief grasp.¹

And it is He who has made the night for you as clothing¹ and sleep [a means for] rest and has made the day a resurrection.²

And it is He who sends the winds as good tidings before His mercy [i.e., rainfall], and We send down from the sky pure water

That We may bring to life thereby a dead land and give it as drink to those We created of numerous livestock and men.

And We have certainly distributed it among them that they might be reminded,¹ but most of the people refuse except disbelief.

And if We had willed, We could have sent into every city a warner.¹

So do not obey the disbelievers, and strive against them with it [i.e., the Qur’ān] a great striving.

And it is He who has released [simultaneously] the two seas [i.e., bodies of water], one fresh and sweet and one salty and bitter, and He placed between them a barrier and prohibiting partition.

And it is He who has created from water [i.e., semen] a human being and made him [a relative by] lineage and marriage. And ever is your Lord competent [concerning creation].

But they worship rather than Allāh that which does not benefit them or harm them, and the disbeliever is ever, against his Lord, an assistant [to Satan].