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And We spread over you the shade of the cloud, and sent down upon you manna and quails:

Do they await only that God come to them in canopies of clouds,

and We will admit them into a shade that shades.

And We spread over them the shade of the cloud, and We sent down upon them manna and quails:

And when We tore the mountain out above them, as though it were a canopy, and they presumed it was going to topple upon them:

And before God prostrates whoever is in the heavens and on the earth, willingly or unwillingly, as do their shadows, morning and evening.

The example of the Garden promised to those who guard themselves: rivers flow beneath it, its fare is constant, as is its shade —

And even if We opened for them a gate of the sky, through which they would stay ascending, they would say: "Our sight is only befuddled; we are rather a people abused by illusion."

Have they not seen that, of everything God has created, the shadows incline to the right and the left, prostrate before God, while they are abased?

And when one of them receives the news of a daughter, his face stays darkened, and he is filled with suppressed distress; he screens himself from the people, because of the ill news he was given:

And God has made for you, from what He created, shades, and He has made for you, from the mountains, shelters, and He has made for you tunics that protect you from the heat, and tunics that protect you from your own violence:

And look at your deity, by which you stayed posted: we shall surely burn it, then we shall surely scatter it into the deep, utterly scattered."

Have you not seen your Guardian, how He extends the shadow?

If We willed, We could send down upon them a sign from the sky before which their necks would stay bent.

They said: "We obey idols, and we stay posted by them."

So they denied him, and the punishment of the day of the canopy seized them.

He watered for them, then moved off to the shade and said: "My Guardian, I am indeed in great need of whatever good You would send down to me."

And if We sent a wind, and they saw it turn yellow, they would stay on, after that, disowning.

And when a wave covers them like canopies, they call upon God, devoting the Law exclusively to Him;

The blind and the seeing are not equal, nor are the darknesses and the light, nor shade and scorching heat.

The companions of the Garden will, this day, be occupied in delight, they and their spouses, in the shade, reclining upon adorned couches.

They will have, above them, canopies of Fire, and beneath them, likewise;

If He wills, He stills the wind, and they stay becalmed upon its surface — surely in that are signs for every very patient, very grateful one — or He delivers them to disaster because of what they have earned, while overlooking much,

Yet when one of them receives the news of what he himself multiplies as an example for the All-Benevolent, his face stays darkened, and he is filled with suppressed distress.

Among thornless lote trees, and clustered banana trees, extended shade, flowing water, abundant savoury fruit neither cut off nor withheld, and elevated couches.

In torrid wind, and boiling water, and a shade of black smoke — neither cool nor generous.

If We willed, We could make it debris, and you would stay lamenting: "We are surely ruined! Rather, we are deprived."

And He has recompensed them, for having been patient, with a garden and silk, reclining therein upon adorned couches, seeing therein neither sun nor bitter cold; its shades will hang close over them, and its clusters made docile, within easy reach.

"Depart to that which you used to deny! Depart to a shadow of three branches, neither shading nor availing against the flame."

Indeed, those who guarded themselves will be amid shades and springs, and savoury fruits of whatever they desire: