The likeness of this present life is as water that We send down out of heaven, and the plants of the earth mingle with it whereof men and cattle eat, till, when the earth has taken on its glitter and has decked itself fair, and its inhabitants think they have power over it, Our command comes upon it by night or day, and We make it stubble, as though yesterday it flourished not.
Abin sani kawai, misãlin rãyuwar dũniya kamar ruwa ne Muka saukar da shi daga sama, sa'an nan tsiron ƙasa ya garwaya da shi. Daga abin da mutãne da dabbõbi suke ci, har idan ƙasa ta riƙi zinãriyarta kuma ta yi ƙawa, kuma mutãnenta suka zaci cẽwa sũ ne mãsu ĩkon yi a kanta, sai umurninMu ya je mata da dare kõ kuma da rãna, sai Mu maishẽta girbabba kamar ba ta wadãta ba a jiya.