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Nor is Allah to be frustrated by anything whatever in the heavens or on the earth; verily He is Knowing, Powerful.” Commentary: None should become proud of his power since there have been many more powerful people than them who have been destroyed; and nothing can overcome the Will of Allah. This verse invites the guilty polytheists to study the traces of the former nations and the fate which they afflicted with.

This is for the sake that whatever they have studied in the history about those nations, they would see by their eyes in the lands belonging to them, and they would observe those things among their effects so that they actually see what they have studied in the statements.

It says: “Have they not travelled in the earth and seen how was the end of those before them …” If they think that they are stronger than those nations, they are in an earnest error, because the Qur’a-n continues saying: “… while they were stronger than them in power?

…” The people of Pharaoh who had taken the land of Egypt under the control of their own power, the people of Namru-d who were governing over the land of Babylon and some other countries all were so strong that the idolaters of Mecca, compared with them, were counted naught. Moreover, the more men are powerful, comparing the power of Allah, their power is naught, because nothing in the heavens nor in the earth can escape from the realm of His Power, and will not frustrate Him.

The verse says: “… Nor is Allah to be frustrated by anything whatever in the heavens or on the earth; …” Allah is both Knowing and Powerful. Neither does anything remain concealed from His sight nor anything is difficult for His Power, nor can anybody overcome Him.

If these blind-hearted, arrogant and deceitful persons think that they can escape from the grips of His Power, they are in error, and if they do not leave their committing ugly deeds, at last they will confront the same fatal end of the former arrogant ones.