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Sura 22
Aya 65
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أَلَم تَرَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ سَخَّرَ لَكُم ما فِي الأَرضِ وَالفُلكَ تَجري فِي البَحرِ بِأَمرِهِ وَيُمسِكُ السَّماءَ أَن تَقَعَ عَلَى الأَرضِ إِلّا بِإِذنِهِ ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بِالنّاسِ لَرَءوفٌ رَحيمٌ

Muhammad Asad

Art thou not aware that it is God who has made subservient to you all that is on earth,1 and the ships that sail through the sea at His behest - and [that it is He who] holds the celestial bodies2 [in their orbits], so that they may not fall upon the earth otherwise than by His leave?3 Verily, God is most compassionate towards men, a dispenser of grace -
  • I.e., "has enabled you to benefit from all...", etc. (cf. surah 14, note 46).
  • Lit., "the sky" - used here as a metonym for the stars and planets, which are held on their courses by the God-willed laws of cosmic movement (Maraghi XVII, 137).
  • I.e., at the Last Hour, which - as the Qur'an so often states - will manifest itself in a universal cosmic catastrophe.