39. Az-Zumar (The Throngs)
Mecca Period 59 [75 verses]
The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:
خَلَقَ
السَّمَاوَاتِ
وَالْأَرْضَ
بِالْحَقِّ...
39: 5. He created the heavens and the earth in true (proportions):
يُكَوِّرُ اللَّيْلَ عَلَى النَّهَارِ وَيُكَوِّرُ النَّهَارَ عَلَى اللَّيْلِ...
He makes the Night overlap the Day, and the Day overlap the Night:
... وَسَخَّرَ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ...
He has subjected the sun and the moon (to His law)
... كُلٌّ يَجْرِي لِأَجَلٍ مُسَمًّى...
each one follows a course for a time appointed.
... أَلَا هُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْغَفَّارُ ﴿٥﴾
Is not He the Exalted in Power -- He Who forgives again and again?
Asad’s Version:
39:5 He it is who has created the heavens and the earth in accordance with [an inner] truth. 5 He causes the night to flow into the day; and causes the day to flow into the night; and He has made the sun and the moon subservient [to His laws], each running its course for a term set [by Him]. 6 Is not He the Almighty, the All-Forgiving?
[[ Asad Notes:
5 See note 1 1 on the last but one sentence of 10:5.
6 See note 5 on 13:2. ]]
64. At-Taghabun (Mutual Loss And Gain)
Period Uncertain [108][18 verses]
The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:
خَلَقَ
السَّمَاوَاتِ
وَالْأَرْضَ
بِالْحَقِّ
وَصَوَّرَكُمْ
فَأَحْسَنَ
صُوَرَكُمْ ...
64; 3. He has created the heavens and the earth in just proportions,
and has given you shape, and made your shapes beautiful:
C5481. Cf. 40:64, and n. 4440: also 7:11 and n. 996.
In addition to the beauty and grandeur of all God's Creation, He has endowed man with special aptitudes, faculties and capacities, and special excellencies which raise him at his best to the position of vicegerent on earth. "Beautiful" also includes the idea of "adapted to the ends for which they were created".
... وَإِلَيْهِ الْمَصِيرُ ﴿٣﴾
and to Him is the final Goal.
C5482. "The final Goal": not only of mankind, but of all things created, whether material or in the realm of ideas and events. All things return to Allah: as they derive their origin from Him, so is the return or destination of all of them to Allah.
Asad’s Version:
(64:2) He it is who has created you: and among you are such as deny this truth, and among you are such as believe [in it]. 1 And God sees all that you do.
64:3 He has created the heavens and the earth in accordance with [an inner] truth, 2 and has formed you - and formed you so well; 3 and with Him is your journey's end. (64:4) He knows all that is in the heavens and on earth; and He knows all that you keep secret as well as all that you bring into the open: for God has full knowledge of what is in the hearts [of men].
[[Asad’s notes - 2 See surah 1 0, note 1 1 .
3 I.e., in accordance with the exigencies of human life. See also note 9 on 7:11. ]]