(24) In that case I shall most surely be in clear error...

(24) In that case I shall most surely be in clear error: (25) Surely I believe in your Lord, therefore hear me. (26) It was said: Enter the garden. He said: O would that my people had known (27) Of that on account of which my Lord has forgiven me and made me of the honored ones! (28) And We did not send down upon his people after him any hosts from heaven, nor do We ever send down. (29) It was naught but a single cry, and lo! they were still. (30) Alas for the servants!

there comes not to them an messenger but they mock at him. (31) Do they not consider how many of the generations have We destroyed before them, because they do not turn to them? (32) And all of them shall surely be brought before Us. (33) And a sign to them is the dead earth: We give life to it and bring forth from it grain SQ they eat of it.

(34) And We make therein gardens of palms and grapevines and We make springs to flow forth in it, (35) That they may eat of the fruit thereof, and their hands did not make it; will they not then be grateful? (36) Glory be to Him Who created pairs of all things, of what the earth grows, and of their kind and of what they do not know. (37) And a sign to them is the night: We draw forth from it the day, then lo!

they are in the dark; (38) And the sun runs on to a term appointed for it; that is the ordinance of the Mighty, the Knowing. (39) And (as for) the moon, We have ordained for it stages till it becomes again as an old dry palm branch. ***(40) Neither is it allowable to the sun that it should overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day; and all float on in a sphere. *** ***(41) And a sign to them is that We bear their offspring in the laden ship.

*** (42) And We have created for them the like of it, what they will ride on. (43) And if We please, We can drown them, then there shall be no succorer for them, nor shall they be rescued (44) But (by) mercy from Us and for enjoyment till a time. (45) And when it is said to them: Guard against what is before you and what is behind you, that mercy may be had on you. (46) And there comes not to them a communication of the communications of their Lord but they turn aside from it.

(47) And when it is said to them: Spend out of what Allah has given you, those who disbelieve say to those who believe: Shall we feed him whom, if Allah please, He could feed? You are in naught but clear error. (48) And they say: When will this threat come to pass, if you are truthful?