105وَلَقَد كَتَبنا فِي الزَّبورِ مِن بَعدِ الذِّكرِ أَنَّ الأَرضَ يَرِثُها عِبادِيَ الصّالِحونَMuhammad AsadAND, INDEED, after having exhorted [man],1 We laid it down in all the books of divine wisdom that My righteous servants shall inherit the earth:2Lit., "after the reminder (adh-dhikr)". For the deeper implications of the Qur'anic term dhikr, see note 13 on verse 10 of this surah.Zabar (lit., "scripture" or "book") is a generic term denoting any "book of wisdom": hence, any and all of the divine scriptures revealed by God to the prophets [Tabari]. The statement that "My righteous servants shall inherit the earth" is obviously an echo of the promise, "You are bound to rise high if you are (truly] believers" (3:139) - the implication being that it is only through faith in God and righteous behaviour on earth that man can reach the heights envisaged for him by his Creator's grace.