The Holy Quran 35:13 — Surah Fatir

Arabic text

يُولِجُ ٱلَّيْلَ فِى ٱلنَّهَارِ وَيُولِجُ ٱلنَّهَارَ فِى ٱلَّيْلِ وَسَخَّرَ ٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ كُلٌّ يَجْرِى لِأَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ۚ ذَٰلِكُمُ ٱللَّهُ رَبُّكُمْ لَهُ ٱلْمُلْكُ ۚ وَٱلَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِهِۦ مَا يَمْلِكُونَ مِن قِطْمِيرٍ

Translation

Allaah enters the day into the night and the night into the day and has made the sun and the moon subservient (so that they benefit man). Each one (the sun and moon) travels to an appointed term (when even they will come to an end). This (Magnificent Creator and Controller of all these things) is Allaah, your Rabb! To Him belongs all kingdom. (Let alone having even some of the powers of Allaah,) Those (gods) whom you (Kuffaar) worship besides Allaah do not have control of even the skin on the date seed. (They are unable to create even something as insignificant as this.)

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The alternation of night and day: this theme has already appeared in many places before. Shah [Abd al-Qadir] ﵀ writes: “That is, like night and day, at times disbelief prevails and at times Islam. And like the sun and the moon, everything has a fixed term; it comes neither late nor early.” The manifest victory of the truth will come in its own time.

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