40 Preface إِنّا نَحنُ نَرِثُ الأَرضَ وَمَن عَلَيها وَإِلَينا يُرجَعونَYusuf AliIt is We Who will inherit1 the earth, and all beings thereon: to Us will they all be returned.Cf. 3:180, n. 485; 15:23 n. 1964. Material property passes from one to another: when one dies another inherits it. God gives life and death, and all that survives after physical death goes back to God, the original source of all things (see also 19:20).