Surah Al-Jaathiya
Chapter 45 · Verse 27 · Revealed in Makkah
“And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. And the Day the Hour appears - that Day the falsifiers will lose.”
Translation: Saheeh International
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Mishary Rashid Alafasy
Reflection — Ibn Kathir
Some of the Conditions of the Day of Resurrection and its Horrors
Allah mentions that He is the King and Owner of the heavens and earth, and the Only Ruler over them in this life and the Hereafter. Allah's statement,
وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ
Reflection — Maarif ul Quran
وَمَا يُهْلِكُنَا إِلَّا الدَّهْرُ "...and nothing destroys us except time...(45:24) " The word dahr means ` time from the beginning of the world to its end'. It also refers to ` a very long period of time'. The atheists alleged that their life and death have nothing to do with Divine will and command. They happen under natural causes. Death is a process which they say they experience when their human limbs, organs and abilities diminish on account of constant use and, with the passage of time, the matter becomes dissolved and is destroyed; and that this is the be-all and end-all of human existence, there being no life hereafter. Likewise, life has nothing to do with Divine will and command. Life too, like death, happens under movement of material causes.
Reviling Time Is Inappropriate
What does this verse bring up for you today?