The Holy Quran 31:29 — Surah Luqman

Arabic text

أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُولِجُ ٱلَّيْلَ فِى ٱلنَّهَارِ وَيُولِجُ ٱلنَّهَارَ فِى ٱلَّيْلِ وَسَخَّرَ ٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ كُلٌّ يَجْرِىٓ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرٌ

Translation

Do you not see that Allaah enters the night into the day, enters the day into the night and has made the sun and the moon (completely) subservient (made them for the benefit of man)? Each one runs (properly) until an appointed term (when it will also come to an end). And (do you not see that) Allaah is Informed of whatever you do (and will reward or punish you for your actions).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

by “an appointed term” is meant either the Day of Resurrection or the cycle of each of the moon and the sun, since after completing one cycle they begin to move anew, as it were. that is, the Power that turns night into day and day into night, and keeps such enormous spheres as the moon and the sun at work like common labourers, what difficulty will it have…

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