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Tuesday, 18 Ramadhaan 1433 H / 07 August 2012

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Surah Al-Mulk (The Kingdom) 67
This Surah is Makki, and it has 30 verses and 2 sections
In the Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Most Merciful

Say, "He is the One who has originated you, and made for you the ears and the eyes and the hearts. How little you pay gratitude" [23]
Say, "He is the One who has scattered you on the earth, and to Him you will be assembled." [24]
And they say, "When will this promise (of the Day of Judgment) be fulfilled, if you are true?" [25]
Say, "The knowledge (of that day) is only with Allah, and I am only a plain Warner. [26]
Then, once they will see it approaching, the faces of the disbelievers will be turned awkward, and it will be said, "This is what you were calling for!" [27]
Say, 'Tell me, if Allah destroys me and those who are with me (as you wish), or has mercy on us (as we wish), who can (in either case) save the disbelievers from a painful punishment?" [28]
Say, "He is the Rahman; we have believed in Him, and in Him we placed our trust. So, you will soon come to know who is in an open error." [29]
Say, "Tell me if your water were to vanish into the earth, who will bring you a flowing (stream) water? [30]

COMMENTARY: After this, the non-believers are threatened with punishment. Towards the end of the Surah, a statement is once again repeated to remind them which purports to say: '0 you who live on the earth, dig wells and drink water from it to quench your thirst and grow plants and vegetation, do not forget that none of these things is your personal property. They are a Divine gift. He sent down water, and loaded it in the form of ice and reserved it on the peaks of mountains, so that it may not putrefy. Then He caused the congealed water to melt gradually and allow it to seep or soak into the earth through the pores or small interstices of the mountains and allowed a network of melted water to spread throughout the earth without any pipeline.

Whenever man requires, he could dig a few meters deep into the earth from its upper surface to obtain water. This is a Divine gift. If He wills, He could send the water down into the depths of the earth, and it would not be accessible to anyone. This is the import of the following verse. (Say, "Tell me, Should your water vanish into the earth, who will bring you a flowing [stream] water?" ... (67:30)

In other words, if all the water, which people draw from the wells easily, were to disappear into the depths of the earth, do they have any power through which they will be able to obtain pure running water? Obviously, the answer in negative.

It is recorded in a Tradition that when a person recites this verse, he should say: "Allah, the Lord of the worlds" That is, it is Allah alone who can bring it back to us. None of us has the power.

~ MA’AARIFUL QUR’AN ~
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