5 Preface لَهُ مُلكُ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضِ ۚ وَإِلَى اللَّهِ تُرجَعُ الأُمورُYusuf AliTo Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth:1 and all affairs are referred back to God.See 57:2 above, where this phrase referred to God’s complete authority over the whole of the external universe: the same phrase now refers to His complete authority over the abstract world?of thoughts and affairs. Every affair must finally go back to Him, whether it comes out here from Darkness into Light, or hides itself from Light into Darkness. God’s knowledge penetrates into the inmost recesses of all Hearts.