[36:28]

We sent not down against his people after him a host from heaven, nor do We ever send.

[36:29]

It was but one Shout, and lo! they were extinct.

[36:30]

Ah, the anguish for the bondmen! Never came there unto them a messenger but they did mock him!

[36:31]

Have they not seen how many generations We destroyed before them, which indeed returned not unto them;

[36:32]

But all, without exception, will be brought before Us.

[36:33]

A token unto them is the dead earth. We revive it, and We bring forth from it grain so that they eat thereof;

[36:34]

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

[36:35]

That they may eat of the fruit thereof, and their hands made it not. Will they not, then, give thanks ?

[36:36]

Glory be to Him Who created all the sexual pairs, of that which the earth groweth, and of themselves, and of that which they know not!

[36:37]

A token unto them is night. We strip it of the day, and lo! they are in darkness.

[36:38]

And the sun runneth on unto a resting-place for him. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise.

[36:39]

And for the moon We have appointed mansions till she return like an old shrivelled palm-leaf.

[36:40]

It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit.