Sura 41, al-Fussilat [expounded], Mecca 61

The Quranic text and Ali’s version

سَنُرِيهِمْ آيَاتِنَا فِي الْآفَاقِ وَفِي أَنفُسِهِمْ حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمْ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ...

41:53. Soon will We show them Our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth.

C4524c. Allah's Truth always spreads, in its own good time, across to the uttermost ends of the earth, as it did in the case of Islam. But its intensive spread in the hearts and souls of people is even more remarkable than its extensive spread over large areas.

Men like the four Companions of the Prophet-and many more-became leaders of men and arbiters of the world's fate.

Madinah from being a focus of jarring tribes and factions that hated each other, became the seat of heroic actions and plans and the nursery of great and noble heroic deeds that resounded throughout the world.

It makes no difference what men may say or do. Allah's Truth must prevail, and He knows who obstruct and who help.

...أَوَلَمْ يَكْفِ بِرَبِّكَ أَنَّهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ ﴿٥٣﴾

Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?

Asad’s version

(41:53) In time We shall make them fully understand 49 Our messages [through

what they perceive] in the utmost horizons [of the universe] and within themselves, 50 so that it will become clear unto them that this [revelation] is indeed the truth [Still,] is it not enough [for them to know] that thy Sustainer is witness unto everything? 51

41:54 Oh, verily, they are in doubt as to whether they will meet their Sustainer [on Judgment Day] ! Oh, verily, He encompasses everything!

[[ Asad’s notes :-

49 Lit., "We will show them" or "make them see".

50 I.e., through a progressive deepening and widening of their insight into the wonders of the umverse as well as through a deeper understanding of man's own psyche - all of which points to the existence of a conscious Creator.

51 I.e., that He is almighty and all-seeing: a fundamental truth which, by itself, should be enough to remind man of his responsibility before Him.