The document uses nature as metaphors to describe the power and majesty of God. It discusses how those who do not believe will find that what they thought was water is nothing when they arrive, while believers will find God. It highlights various natural phenomena like clouds, rain, hail and lightning as demonstrations of God's control over creation, and says all living things were created from water by God's power and design.

1. But those who disbelieve – their deeds are like a mirage in a lowland which a thirsty one thinks is water until,

2. When he comes to it, he finds it is nothing but finds Allah before him, and He will pay him in full his due; and Allah is swift in account

3. Or [they are] like darkness within an unfathomable sea

4. Which is covered by waves, upon which are waves,

5. Over which are clouds

6. darkness, some of them upon others

7. When one puts out his hand, he can hardly see it

8. And he to whom Allah has not granted light – for him there is no light

9. See you not that Allâh, He it is Whom glorify whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, and the birds with wings out-spread. Of each one Allâh knows indeed his prayer and his glorification

10. And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and to Allah is the destination

11. Do you not see that Allah drives Clouds, then He brings them togather

12. Then He makes them into a mass

13. Then you see the rain emerge from within it

14. Then you see the rain emerge from within it

15. And He sends down from the sky, mountains [of clouds] within which is hail

16. And He strikes with it whom He wills and averts it from whom He wills.

17. The flash of its lightening almost takes away the eyesight

18. Allah alternates the night and the day.

19. Indeed in that is a lesson for those who have vision.

20. Allah has created every living creature from water

21. And of them are those that move on their bellies

22. And of them are those that move on their bellies

23. And of them are those who walk on two legs

24. And of them are those that move on their bellies

25. And of them are those that walk on four. Allah creates what He wills, Indeed, Allah is over all things competent.