The Quran

Preface

هُوَ الَّذي خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضَ في سِتَّةِ أَيّامٍ ثُمَّ استَوىٰ عَلَى العَرشِ ۚ يَعلَمُ ما يَلِجُ فِي الأَرضِ وَما يَخرُجُ مِنها وَما يَنزِلُ مِنَ السَّماءِ وَما يَعرُجُ فيها ۖ وَهُوَ مَعَكُم أَينَ ما كُنتُم ۚ وَاللَّهُ بِما تَعمَلونَ بَصيرٌ

Yusuf Ali

He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days,¹ and is moreover firmly established on the Throne (of Authority),² He knows what enters within the earth and what comes forth out of it, what comes down from heaven and what mounts up to it. And He is with you wheresoever ye³ may be. And God sees well all that ye do.

In six Days: see 41:9-12, and notes; also more briefly, n. 1031 to 7:54.
Cf. 10:3, and n. 1386. It is not that God completed His Creation in six days and rested on the seventh day, or rests now. Certain external forms of the universe were by God’s Command completed in six periods of evolution. But His creative process still goes on, and He is still, and will always be, in full control, knowing all and guiding all affairs. (R).
God watches over man and observes his deeds. His knowledge comprehends all, the earth, heavens, what is in them or above them or whatever is in between them, comes out of them or goes into them, for “not a leaf doth fall but with His knowledge”, and “there is not a grain in the darkness for depths) of the earth, nor anything fresh of dry (green or withered), but is inscribed in a Record”. (6:59). [Eds.].