We also send the fertilizing winds,[42] and We send down water from heaven, and give you to drink thereof; and ye are not the storers of it. And verily We give life and death, and We are the heirs _of all the creation_. We also know those who have gone before you, and We know those who follow after [you]. And verily thy Lord will assemble them together: for He is Wise, Knowing. (xv. 16-25.) IX. And your God is One God: there is no god but He, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Verily in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the varying of night and day, and the ships that course upon the sea _laden_ with what is profitable to mankind, and the water that God hath sent down from heaven, quickening the earth thereby after its death, and scattering about it all kinds of beasts; and in the changing of the winds, and the clouds that are compelled to do service between heaven and earth, are signs unto a people who understand. Yet among men are those who take to themselves, beside God, idols, which they love as _with_ the love for God: but those who have believed are more loving towards God _than these towards their idols_. (ii. 158-160.) X. Verily God causeth the grain to come forth, and the date-stone: He bringeth forth the living from the dead,[43] and He bringeth forth the dead from the living:[44] This is God; then wherefore are ye turned away? He causeth the dawn to appear, and hath ordained the night for rest, and the sun and the moon for reckoning _time_: this is the appointment of the Mighty, the Wise. And it is He who hath ordained for you the stars, that ye may be guided by them in the darknesses of the land and of the sea: We have clearly shown the signs _of Our power_ unto the people who know.[45] And it is He who hath produced you from one soul, and _there is_ a place of rest and of storing:[46] We have clearly shown the signs to the people who understand. And it is He who hath sent down water from heaven, and We have produced thereby the germs of everything, and We have caused the green thing to come forth therefrom, from which We draw forth grains massed; and from the palm-tree, from its fruit-branch, clusters of dates heaped together:[47] and gardens of grapes, and the olive and the pomegranate, like one another[48] and not like.[49] Look ye at their fruits when they bear fruit, and their ripening. Verily therein are signs unto the people who believe. Yet they have set up the Jinn[50] as partners of God, though He hath created them, and without knowledge have they falsely attributed to Him sons and daughters. Extolled be His purity, and high be He exalted above that which they attribute [to Him]! _He is_ the Author of the heavens and the earth. How then should He have offspring, when He hath no consort, and hath created everything and knoweth everything? This is God your Lord. There is no God but He, the Creator of everything: therefore worship ye Him;[51] and He is guardian over everything.