35. Al-Fatir (The Originator)

Mecca Period 43

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

وَاللَّهُ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ الرِّيَاحَ فَتُثِيرُ سَحَابًا...

35: 9. It is Allah Who sends forth the Winds, so that they raise up the Clouds,

C3881. The allegory here is double. …………..

So in the spiritual world, Allah's Revelation is His Mercy and His Rain; there may be the individual resurrection (Nushur) or unfolding of a soul.

2. So again, may be the general Resurrection (Nushur), the unfolding of a new World in the Hereafter, out of an old World that is folded up and dead (Takwir, Surah 81).

... فَسُقْنَاهُ إِلَى بَلَدٍ مَّيِّتٍ...

and We drive them to a Land that is dead,

... فَأَحْيَيْنَا بِهِ الْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا...

and revive the earth therewith after its death:

... كَذَلِكَ النُّشُورُ ﴿٩﴾

even so (will be) the Resurrection!

Asad’s Version:

35: 9. AND [remember:] it is God who sends forth the winds, so that they raise a cloud, whereupon We drive it towards dead land and thereby give life to the earth after it had been lifeless: even thus shall resurrection be!

Yuksel’s Version:

35: 9 God is the One who sends the winds so it stirs up a cloud, then We drive it to a town that is dead, and We revive with it the land after it had died. Such is the resurrection.