The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

260 The Quran
30: 46
46 Another of His signs is that He sends out the winds bearing
good news, giving you a taste of His grace, making the ships sail at
His command, enabling you to [journey in] search of His bounty so
that you may be grateful. 47 Before you [Muhammad], We sent messengers,
each to their own people: they brought them clear proofs
and then We punished the evildoers. We make it Our duty to help
the believers. 48 It is God who sends out the winds; they stir up the
clouds; He spreads them over the skies as He pleases; He makes
them break up and you see the rain falling from them. See how they
rejoice when He makes it fall upon whichever of His servants He
wishes, 49 though before it is sent they may have lost all hope. 50 Look,
then, at the imprints of God’s mercy, how He restores the earth to
life after death: this same God is the one who will return people to
life after death – He has power over all things. 51 Yet they will continue
in their disbelief, even if We send a [scorching] wind and they
see their crops turn yellow. 52 You [Prophet] cannot make the dead
hear and you cannot make the deaf hear your call when they turn
their backs and leave; 53 you cannot lead the blind out of their error:
the only ones you can make hear you are those who believe in Our
revelations and devote themselves [to Us]. 54 It is God who creates
you weak, then gives you strength, then weakness after strength,
together with your grey hair: He creates what He will; He is the All
Knowing, the All Powerful.
55 On the Day the Hour comes, the guilty will swear they lingered
no more than an hour – they have always been deluded – 56 but those
endowed with knowledge and faith will say, ‘In accordance with
God’s decree, you actually lingered till the Day of Resurrection: this
is the Day of Resurrection, yet you did not know.’ 57 On that Day the
evildoers’ excuses will be of no use to them: they will not be allowed
to make amends.
58 In this Quran We have set every kind of illustration before
people, yet if you [Prophet] brought them a miracle, the disbelievers
would still say, ‘You [prophets] deal only in falsehood.’ 59 In this
way God seals the hearts of those who do not know, 60 so be patient,
for God’s promise is true: do not let those with no firm beliefs
discourage you.