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And when you said: "O Moussa! We can never endure a single kind of food; invoke, then, your Guardian for us, that He bring forth for us of what the earth grows, of its herbs, its cucumbers, its garlic, its lentils, and its onions."

Prohibited to you are: the dead animal, blood, the flesh of swine, that which has been consecrated to other than God, the strangled animal, the animal on the brink of death, the animal in a declining state from illness, the animal dead from a blow of the horn, and what a wild beast has devoured — except what you have purified by fire — as well as the animal slaughtered in common whose shares are then drawn by lot with arrows.

That is because no thirst, no fatigue, no dearth touches them in the way of God, no step they tread irritates those who disown, and no gain from an enemy accrues to them, without a sound deed being inscribed for them because of it.

And we shall surely be patient in the face of the trouble you cause us;

No fatigue will touch them therein,

When they had traversed it, he said to his young companion: "Bring us our meal; we have indeed met, on this journey, much fatigue."

who has lodged us, by His favor, in the abode of the station, where no fatigue touches us, nor any weariness."

And remember Our obedient one Ayyub, when he called upon his Guardian: "The Diverter has touched me with fatigue and suffering."

So let them be: let them immerse themselves and play, until they meet their Day, the one they are promised — the Day they will emerge from the sepulchres rapidly as if racing toward an erected marker, their sights humble, humiliation veiling them.

Do they not look at the massive animals, how they were created? And at the sky, how it was elevated? And at the mountains, how they were set up? And at the earth, how it was laid flat?

As soon as you are freed, direct your effort, and to your Guardian turn your yearning.