Or do you think that most of them listen or understand?1 They are only like cattle—no, more than that, they are astray from the ˹Right˺ Way!2
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Have you not seen how your Lord extends the shade—He could have simply made it ˹remain˺ still if He so willed—then We make the sun its guide,
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causing the shade to retreat gradually?1
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He is the One Who has made the night for you as a cover, and ˹made˺ sleep for resting, and the day for rising.
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And He is the One Who sends the winds ushering in His mercy, and We send down pure rain from the sky,
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giving life to a lifeless land, and providing water for countless animals and humans of Our Own creation.
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We certainly disperse it among them so they may be mindful, but most people persist in ungratefulness.
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Had We willed, We could have easily sent a warner to every society.
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So do not yield to the disbelievers, but strive diligently against them with this ˹Quran˺.
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And He is the One Who merges the two bodies of water: one fresh and palatable and the other salty and bitter, placing between them a barrier they cannot cross.1
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And He is the One Who creates human beings from a ˹humble˺ liquid,1 then establishes for them bonds of kinship and marriage. For your Lord is Most Capable.
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Yet they worship besides Allah what can neither benefit nor harm them. And the disbeliever always collaborates against their Lord.
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