The example of the worldly life is like water which has come down from the sky; it mixed with the plants of the earth from what people and the livestock eat. Then the earth takes its attractions and becomes glamorous, and its inhabitants think that they have mastered it. Then Our judgment comes by night or by day, so We make it a wasteland as if it never prospered yesterday! It is such that We clarify the signs to a people who think.
Translation endnotes
[10:24] Surely, God knows the exact time of the Hour. But, since the world is round, when that moment comes, half of the world will be experiencing night and the other half daylight. See 4:82.