6 Preface ۞ وَما مِن دابَّةٍ فِي الأَرضِ إِلّا عَلَى اللَّهِ رِزقُها وَيَعلَمُ مُستَقَرَّها وَمُستَودَعَها ۚ كُلٌّ في كِتابٍ مُبينٍYusuf AliThere is no moving creature on earth but its sustenance1 dependeth on God. He knoweth the time and place of its definite abode and its temporary deposit:2 All is in a clear Record.3Cf. 6:59. Nothing happens in Creation except by the Word of God and with the knowledge of God. Not a leaf stirs but by His Will. Its maintenance in every sense is dependent on His Will.Mustaqarr= definite abode; where a thing stops or stays for some time, where it is established. Mustawda' = where a thing is laid up or deposited for a little while. Referring to animals, the former denotes its life on this earth; the latter its temporary prenatal existence in the egg or the womb and its after-death existence in the tomb or whatever state it is in until its resurrection.Cf. 6:59 and n. 880, and 10:61 and n. 1450.