9۞ قُل أَئِنَّكُم لَتَكفُرونَ بِالَّذي خَلَقَ الأَرضَ في يَومَينِ وَتَجعَلونَ لَهُ أَندادًا ۚ ذٰلِكَ رَبُّ العالَمينَMuhammad AsadSAY: "Would you indeed deny Him who has created the earth in two aeons?1 And do you claim that there is any power that could rival Him,2 the Sustainer of all the worlds?"For the above rendering of the term yawm (lit., "day"), as "aeon", see last third of note 43 on 7:54. As in so many verses of the Qur'an which relate to cosmic events, the repeated mention of the "six aeons" during which the universe was created "two" of which, according to the above verse, were taken by the evolution of the inorganic universe, including the earth has a purely allegorical import: in this case, I believe, an indication that the universe did not exist "eternally" but had a definite beginning in time, and that it required a definite time-lapse to evolve to its present condition.Lit., "do you give Him compeers (andad)?" For an explanation, see note 13 on 2:22.