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Tafheem-ul-Quran - Abul Ala Maududi translation for Surah Ar-Rum — Ayah 25

30:25
وَمِنۡ ءَايَٰتِهِۦٓ أَن تَقُومَ ٱلسَّمَآءُ وَٱلۡأَرۡضُ بِأَمۡرِهِۦۚ ثُمَّ إِذَا دَعَاكُمۡ دَعۡوَةٗ مِّنَ ٱلۡأَرۡضِ إِذَآ أَنتُمۡ تَخۡرُجُونَ ٢٥
And of His Signs is that the sky and the earth stand firm by His command.1 Then no sooner than He summons you out of the earth you will come forth.2
Footnotes
  • [1] That is, not only have they come into being by His command, but their continuous existence and the functioning in them of a grand workshop of life constantly is also due to His command. If His command does not sustain them even for a moment, the entire system should break down at once.
  • [2] That is, it is not at all difficult for the Creator and Controller of the universe to raise you back to life; for this He will have to make no preparation. His one call will be enough to raise and muster together from every corner of the earth all human beings who have been born since the beginning of creation and will be born in the future.
  • [3] Qira’at: All except for Ibn Kathir, Abu ʻAmr, Hafs and Yaʻqub read it as: “We detail the signs for . . .”
  • [4] Qira’at: Ibn ʻAmer and Yaʻqub read it as: “. . . He would have fulfilled their term for them”.