25.41 . And when they see thee ( O Muhammad ) they treat thee only as a jest ( saying ) : Is this he whom Allah sendeth as a messenger?

25.42 . He would have led us far away from our gods if we had not been staunch to them . They will know , when they behold the doom , who is more astray as to the road .

25.43 . Hast thou seen him who chooseth for his god his own lust? Wouldst thou then be guardian over him?

25.44 . Or deemest thou that most of them hear or understand? They are but as the cattle , nay , but they are farther astray!

25.45 . Hast thou not seen how thy Lord hath spread the shade . And if He willed He could have made it still , then We have made the sun its pilot ;

25.46 . Then We withdraw it unto Us , a gradual withdrawal?

25.47 . And He it is Who maketh night a covering for you , and sleep repose , and maketh day a resurrection .

25.48 . And He it is Who sendeth the winds , glad tidings heralding His mercy , and We send down purifying water from the sky .

25.49 . That We may give life thereby to a dead land , and We give many beasts and men that We have created to drink thereof .

25.50 . And verily We have repeated it among them that they may remember , but most of mankind begrudge aught save in gratitude .

25.51 . If We willed , We could raise up a warner in every village .

25.52 . So obey not the disbelievers , but strive against them herewith with a great endeavor .

25.53 . And He it is Who hath given independence to the two seas ( though they meet ) ; one palatable , sweet , and the other saltish , bitter ; and hath set a bar and a forbidding ban between them .

25.54 . And He it is Who hath created man from water , and hath appointed for him kindred by blood and kindred by marriage ; for thy Lord is ever Powerful .

25.55 . Yet they worship instead of Allah that which can neither benefit them nor hurt them . The disbeliever was ever a partisan against his Lord .

25.56 . And We have sent thee ( O Muhammad ) only as a bearer of good tidings and a warner .

25.57 . Say : I ask of you no reward for this , save that whoso will may choose a way unto his Lord .

25.58 . And trust thou in the Living One Who dieth not , and hymn His praise . He sufficeth as the Knower of His bondmen ' s sins ,

25.59 . Who created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six Days , then He mounted the Throne . The Beneficent! Ask any one informed concerning Him!

25.60 . And when it is said unto them: Prostrate to the Beneficent! they say: And what is the Beneficent? Are we to prostrate to whatever thou (Muhammad) biddest us? And it increaseth aversion in them.