And among His signs is the creation of the heavens and earth...

And among His signs is the creation of the heavens and earth, and the variety of your languages and colors. Surely in this are signs for all who are endowed with (innate knowledge. And among His signs is your sleep during the night or day, and your (ability to go about in) quest of some of His bounties. Surely in this are signs for a people who (are willing to) listen!

📌And among His signs is that He shows you lightning, causing both fear and hope, and that He sends down rain from the sky and with it revives the earth after it is dead. Surely in this are signs for a people who use their reason. And among His signs is that the heaven and earth stand firm by His command. (Remember all this, for )in the end when He will call you forth from the earth by a single call you will (all) emerge (for judgement). To Him belongs every being in the heavens and the earth.

All are obedient to Him. And it is He Who originates creation, then recreates it. And it is most easy for Him, since His is the essence of all that is sublime in the heavens and on earth, and He alone is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise (Al-Rum 30: 1727). It is Allah Who splits the grain and the date-stone, brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living. That is Allah; then how are you deluded away from the truth?

He makes the dawn appear, and has made the night for resting, and the sun and moon for the reckoning (of time). Such is the judgement and ordering of the All-Mighty, the All-Knowing. It is He Who has appointed for you the stars, so that by them you might be guided in the darknesses, whether on land or sea. We thus explain Our signs for a people who have knowledge. It is He Who produced you from a single person; and then there is a place of sojourn and a place of departure.

We detail our signs for a people who understand. It is He Who sends down water from the sky. With it We bring forth the shoot of every plant and then We bring forth the green leaf of it, producing from it grain heaped up (at harvest); and out of the palm tree, from the sheaths of it, dates thick-clustered, hanging low and near; and gardens of grapes, olives, and pomegranates, each similar (in kind) and yet different (in variety). Look upon their fruits when they begin to bear fruit and ripen.

Surely, in all this are signs for a people who believe. Yet some (people) have come to attribute to the jinn a place side by side with Allah, although He created them (all).

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