40إِنّا نَحنُ نَرِثُ الأَرضَ وَمَن عَلَيها وَإِلَينا يُرجَعونَMuhammad AsadBehold, We alone shall remain after the earth and all who live on it have passed away,1 and [when] unto Us all will have been brought back.Lit., "We alone shall inherit the earth and all who are on it". For an explanation of this metaphoric use of the concept of "inheritance", see surah 15, note 22.