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Sura 44
Aya 38
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وَما خَلَقنَا السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضَ وَما بَينَهُما لاعِبينَ

Muhammad Asad

For [thus it is:] We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in mere idle play:1
  • I.e., without meaning or purpose (cf. 21:16) - implying that if there were no hereafter, man's life on earth would be utterly mearnagless, and thus in 'contradiction to the above as well as the subsequent statement, "none of all this have We created without (an inner] truth".