The example of the life of the world and what you boast about in it of adornment and wealth is like rain We sent down from the sky to the earth, then there grew by it types of plants mixed with each other of what people eat of fruits, and what animals eat of plants, until when the beauty of this earth and its splendor appeared, and the people of this earth thought that they were capable of its harvest and benefit from it, Our command and Our decree came to it with the destruction of what was upon it of plants and adornment either by night or by day, so We made these plants and trees harvested and cut having nothing in it, as if those crops and plants had not stood before that on the face of the earth. Likewise, the annihilation comes upon what you boast about of your world and its decorations, then Allah annihilates it and destroys it. And just as We clarified to you-O people-the example of this world and made you recognize its reality, We clarify Our arguments and Our evidences for a people who reflect upon the verses of Allah, and contemplate what benefits them in the world and the Hereafter.