Quran on Impermanence

Lo! these love fleeting life, and put behind them (the remembrance of) a grievous day.

Hast thou not seen how Allah hath sent down water from the sky and hath caused it to penetrate the earth as watersprings, and afterward thereby produceth crops of divers hues; and afterward they wither and thou seest them turn yellow; then He maketh them chaff. Lo! herein verily is a reminder for men of understanding.

He sendeth down water from the sky, so that valleys flow according to their measure, and the flood beareth (on its surface) swelling foam - from that which they smelt in the fire in order to make ornaments and tools riseth a foam like unto it - thus Allah coineth (the similitude of) the true and the false. Then, as for the foam, it passeth away as scum upon the banks, while, as for that which is of use to mankind, it remaineth in the earth. Thus Allah coineth the similitudes.

They ever dwell therein. The doom will not be lightened for them, neither will they be reprieved.

Those are they whose works have failed in the world and the Hereafter; and they have no helpers.

Systems have passed away before you. Do but travel in the land and see the nature of the consequence for those who did deny (the messengers).

Assuredly in the Hereafter they will be the greatest losers.

For them is torment in the life of the world, and verily the doom of the Hereafter is more painful, and they have no defender from Allah.

There is none in the heavens and the earth but cometh unto the Beneficent as a slave.

Lo! those unto whom kindness hath gone forth before from Us, they will be far removed from thence.

There is naught but our life of the world; we die and we live, and we shall not be raised (again).

O my people! Lo! this life of the world is but a passing comfort, and lo! the Hereafter, that is the enduring home.

Ye cannot escape in the earth, for beside Allah ye have no protecting friend nor any helper.

And they were unable to rise up, nor could they help themselves.

Everyone that is thereon will pass away;

Wherein is every kind of fruit in pairs.

Naught of disaster befalleth in the earth or in yourselves but it is in a Book before we bring it into being - Lo! that is easy for Allah -

(Which yet is) no relief nor shelter from the flame.