96 Preface فالِقُ الإِصباحِ وَجَعَلَ اللَّيلَ سَكَنًا وَالشَّمسَ وَالقَمَرَ حُسبانًا ۚ ذٰلِكَ تَقديرُ العَزيزِ العَليمِYusuf AliHe it is that cleaveth the day-break (from the dark): He makes the night for rest and tranquillity, and the sun and moon for the reckoning (of time): Such is the judgment1 and ordering of (Him), the Exalted in Power, the Omniscient.The night, the day, the sun, the moon - the great astronomical universe of God. How far, and yet how near to us! God’s universe is boundless, and we can barely comprehend even its relations to us. But this last we must try to do if we want to be numbered with “the people who know.” Taqdir: Cf. 6:91 and n. 909, and 4:149 and n. 655.