2الَّذي لَهُ مُلكُ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضِ وَلَم يَتَّخِذ وَلَدًا وَلَم يَكُن لَهُ شَريكٌ فِي المُلكِ وَخَلَقَ كُلَّ شَيءٍ فَقَدَّرَهُ تَقديرًاMuhammad AsadHe to whom the dominion over the heavens and the earth belongs, and who begets no offspring,1 and has no partner in His dominion: for it is He who creates every thing and determines its nature in accordance with [His own] design.2See note 133 on 17:111.I.e., in accordance with the function assigned by Him to each individual thing or phenomenon: cf. the oldest formulation of this idea in 87:2-3.