So We made it an example to their own time and to their posterity, and a lesson to those who fear Allah.

The likeness of the life of the present is as the rain which We send down from the skies: by its mingling arises the produce of the earth- which provides food for men and animals: (It grows) till the earth is clad with its golden ornaments and is decked out (in beauty): the people to whom it belongs think they have all powers of disposal over it: There reaches it Our command by night or by day, and We make it like a harvest clean-mown, as if it had not flourished only the day before! thus do We explain the Signs in detail for those who reflect.

我以这种刑罚为前人和後人的戒与敬畏者的教训。

今世的生活，就像是从云中降下雨水，地里的禾苗，即人和牲畜所吃的东西--就因之而繁茂起来。直到田地穿上盛装，打扮得很美丽，而农夫猜想自己可以获得丰收的时候，我的命令在黑夜或白昼降临那些田地，我使五谷只留下茬儿，彷佛新近没有种过庄稼一样。我为能思维的民众这样解释许多迹象。