66 Preface رَبُّ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضِ وَما بَينَهُمَا العَزيزُ الغَفّارُYusuf Ali“The Lord of the heavens and the earth, and all between,- Exalted in Might, able to enforce His Will,1 forgiving again and again.”2In n. 2818 to 22:40, I have explained the full import of “Aziz as a title applied to God, and I have expressed two of the leading ideas involved, in the two lines here. The argument in this Sūra turns upon the contrast between earthly Power and the Divine Power: the one is impotent and the other is supreme.Ghaffar is the emphatic intensive form, and I have accordingly translated it as “Forgiving again and again”. Cf. 20:82.