And had We willed We could have raised him by their means, but he clung to the earth and followed his own lust. Therefor his likeness is as the likeness of a dog: if thou attackest him he panteth with his tongue out, and if thou leavest him he panteth with his tongue out. Such is the likeness of the people who deny Our revelations. Narrate unto them the history (of the men of old), that haply they may take thought.
و اگر می‌خواستیم هر آینه بالا می‌بردیمش بدانها لیکن او بسوی زمین گرائید و پیروی کرد هوس خود را پس مثَل او مانند سگ است که اگر آهنگش کنی زبان از کام درآرد و اگر بگذاریش زبان از کام درآرد (فروهلد) این است مثَل گروهی که تکذیب نمودند آیتهای ما را پس بخوان داستانها را شاید اندیشه کنند