36.21 . Follow those who ask of you no fee , and who are rightly guided .

36.22 . For what cause should I not serve Him Who hath created me , and unto Whom ye will be brought back?

36.23 . Shall I take ( other ) gods in place of Him when , if the Beneficent should wish me any harm , their intercession will avail me naught , nor can they save?

36.24 . Then truly I should be in error manifest .

36.25 . Lo! I have believed in your Lord , so hear met

36.26 . It was said ( unto him ) : Enter Paradise . He said : Would that my people knew

36.27 . With what ( munificence ) my Lord hath pardoned me and made me of the honored ones!

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 return 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 hand 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 .