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As-Sajdah - 32:6
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ذَلِكَ عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ
in one Day, the measurement of which is a thousand years of your reckoning. That is He, the All-Knower of the unseen and the seen,
meaning, He is controlling all these affairs. He sees all that His servants do, and all their deeds, major and minor, significant and insignificant, ascend to Him. He is the Almighty Who has subjugated all things to His control, and to Whom everybody submits, and He is Most Merciful to His believing servants. He is Almighty in His mercy and Most Merciful in His might. This is perfection:might combined with mercy and mercy combined with might, for He is Merciful without any hint of weakness.
الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ
the All-Mighty, the Most Merciful
As-Sajdah - 32:7
The Creation of Man in Stages
Allah tells us that He has created everything well and formed everything in a goodly fashion.
Malik said, narrating from Zayd bin Aslam:
الَّذِي أَحْسَنَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقَهُ
Who made everything He has created good,
means, "He created everything well and in a goodly fashion."
When Allah mentions the creation of the heavens and the earth, He follows that by mentioning the creation of man.
Allah says:
وَبَدَأَ خَلْقَ الاِْنسَانِ مِن طِينٍ
and He began the creation of man from clay.
meaning, He created the father of mankind, Adam, from clay.
As-Sajdah - 32:8
ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسْلَهُ مِن سُلَلَةٍ مِّن مَّاء مَّهِينٍ
Then He made his offspring from semen of despised water.
means, they reproduce in this fashion, from a Nutfah which comes from the loins of men and from between the ribs of women
As-Sajdah - 32:9
ثُمَّ سَوَّاهُ
Then He fashioned him in due proportion,
means, when He created Adam from clay, He created him and gave him shape and made him upright.
وَنَفَخَ فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِهِ وَجَعَلَ لَكُمُ السَّمْعَ وَالاَْبْصَارَ وَالاَْفْيِدَةَ
and breathed into him the soul; and He gave you hearing, sight and the sense of deduction.
means, reason.
قَلِيلً مَّا تَشْكُرُونَ
Little is the thanks you give!
means, for these strengths with which Allah has provided you; the one who is truly blessed is the one who uses them to worship and obey his Lord, may He be exalted and glorified
As-Sajdah - 32:10
Refutation of Those Who think the Resurrection is unlikely to happen
Allah tells;
وَقَالُوا
And they say:
Allah tells us how the idolators thought it unlikely that the resurrection would ever come to pass, and how they said:
أَيِذَا ضَلَلْنَا فِي الاَْرْضِ
When we are lost in the earth,
meaning, `when our bodies have been scattered and have disintegrated and dispersed in the earth,'
أَيِنَّا لَفِي خَلْقٍ جَدِيدٍ
shall we indeed be created anew,
means, `after that, will we come back again'
They thought it unlikely that this would happen, and in terms of their own feeble abilities it is indeed unlikely, but this is not the case with regard to the power of the One Who created them from nothing, Who when He wills a thing merely says to it, "Be!" and it is.
Allah says:
بَلْ هُم بِلِقَاء رَبِّهِمْ كَافِرُونَ
Nay, but they deny the meeting with their Lord!)
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