25 Preface وَلَئِن سَأَلتَهُم مَن خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضَ لَيَقولُنَّ اللَّهُ ۚ قُلِ الحَمدُ لِلَّهِ ۚ بَل أَكثَرُهُم لا يَعلَمونَYusuf AliIf thou ask them, who it is that created the heavens and the earth.1 They will certainly say, “God”. Say: “Praise be to God.”2 But most of them understand not.Cf. 23:84-89, and 29:61 and n. 3493. Men will acknowledge that God created the heavens and the earth, and yet fail to understand the love and goodness of God in continuing to cherish and maintain them with His gifts. Even if they allow this, they sometimes yet fall short of the corollary, that He is the only One to be worshipped, and run after their own false gods in the shapes of their fancies and lusts. They do not do the duties which, if they rightly understood their own nature and position, they should take a delight in doing.This ejaculation expresses our satisfaction that at least this is recognised-that the Creator of the whole world is God. It is a pity mat they do not go further and recognise other facts and duties (see the last note).