68 Preface هُوَ الَّذي يُحيي وَيُميتُ ۖ فَإِذا قَضىٰ أَمرًا فَإِنَّما يَقولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكونُYusuf AliIt is He Who gives Life1 and Death; and when He decides upon an affair, He says to it, “Be”, and it is.The keys of life and death are in God’s hands. But He is not dependent on time or place or instruments or materials. All that He has to do is to say “Be”, and it comes into existence. Cf. 16:40, and n. 2066; 36:82, and n. 4028. Conversely, His Will or Command is sufficient to annihilate Existence into Non-Existence (Life into Death) or determine the limits or conditions of Existence or Non- Existence.