40 Preface فَلا أُقسِمُ بِرَبِّ المَشارِقِ وَالمَغارِبِ إِنّا لَقادِرونَYusuf AliNow I do call to witness1 the Lord of all points in the East and the West2 that We can certainly-3For the form of adjuration, C., 69:38, n. 5665; also 56:75. Here the witness placed before us by God is His own power and glory manifested in the splendour of sunrise and sunset at different points through the solar year.See n. 4034 to 37:5. If God has such power in the wonderful phenomena of the rising of the sun at varying points, repeated year after year, can you not see that He can easily substitute better men than you Unbelievers and blasphemers?The transition from the singular “I” to the plural “We” may be noted. See n. 56 to 2:38###