Ali 'Imran 109: Whatever there is in the heavens and the earth, it belongs to Allah. And all deeds return to Allah.

A. Metin Saruhan · 11 December 2017 · Ali 'Imran

Translation

Whatever there is in the heavens and the earth, it belongs to Allah. And all deeds return to Allah.

Tafsir

All creation, the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, belongs to Allah. If we look at the origin of all these creations, all beings, animate and inanimate, are created in accordance with a knowledge and remember Allah (swt). All these creatures are created to complement each other. Here it is clear that all these creatures were created by a Creator and that He is Allah (swt), Whose Zat He has revealed. By declaring His Essence in this way, Allah proves that there is no other God but Him. If there were another God other than Allah (swt), Allah (swt) says in one of His Verses, "If there were another God other than Allah (swt), He would take what He has created and the other would take what He has created and the world would be in chaos".

After proving to mankind and to every intellect that there is no other being besides Himself, eternal and everlasting, manifest and immanent, with His verses, Allah, the Creator of the worlds, addressed to mankind: He did not create this universe as a game and a toy. All created beings (living and non-living things) know the remembrance of their Lord." According to this verse, all created beings were created on a mission. In addition, these created beings will complete their duties and will one day be held accountable in the presence of Allah according to the verse, "Finally, the return is to Allah".

(As it is clearly understood from the verse in which Allah says, "All these created beings and this wheel that completes each other have been created by Allah, and one day, either at death, or at the end of their mission, or at the final judgment, all these beings will be gathered in the presence of Allah and will be held accountable.

Another meaning here is: All created beings, from the mote to the sphere, have been created with knowledge according to the Verse (He has known the remembrance of His Lord), every being has been created with knowledge, and every being created is not a coincidence, and when every created being is examined, it is equipped with knowledge, and this knowledge leads us to Allah (things come back to Allah), and with the Verse (things come back to Allah), He proves His Essence again.

If we pay attention! With each and every verse, Allah not only mentions Himself, that is, informs us of His existence, but also shows us a path. In addition, by deriving separate meanings from each Ayat-i Kerime, each meaning proves Allah and sheds light on the works that people will do by proving Allah. This is one of the miracles of the Ayat. That is why Allah says: "If man and jinn were gathered together, they could not bring the like of a Verse.

What is said in the video

Whatever is in the heavens and on the earth belongs to Allah. All matters, in the end, come back to Allah.

What did we say this is? It symbolises tawhid. Because the heavens and the earth, (?) what is between them, remember Allah. Even though we do not hear it, all these beings, by remembering Allah — Allah Almighty has struck His sign on the atoms of those beings, and by those nuclei turning around their own axis, the positively and negatively charged protons and electrons, by turning, make a sound and that sound remembers Allah. Whichever of His attributes our Lord has them remember, He has those things remember that attribute. And the meaning of this: that there is no god but Allah, that all these created things were created by our Lord — Allah Almighty made it so as proof of this.

Yes. That is why whatever is in the heavens and on the earth belongs to Allah. There is no god but Allah. All matters, in the end, come back to Allah. That is, all these worlds run on a programme. Wherever you go, whatever you do, in the end your return will surely be to Allah. In the end it will go back to Allah.

All created things, the heavens and the earth and what is between them, belong to Allah. If we look at the origin of all these created things, all beings, living and lifeless, were created within a knowledge. All these created things were created to complete one another. Here it is understood clearly and with certainty that all these created things were created by a Creator, and that He is Allah, who has made His being known — this becomes certain, we say.

What have we done? We have taken this from another angle. From which angle? So that it is understood better: that everything, living and lifeless, is created in its proper place, that they were created within a knowledge, that nothing came about by chance, and this tells us that there is a Creator and that this Creator is Allah, the Lord of these worlds. Yes, so Allah, by making His being known in this way, proves that there is no other god besides Him. As we said a moment ago, La ilaha illallah symbolises tawhid. If there were another god besides Him, if there were another god besides Allah Almighty, if there were — Allah Almighty says in a verse: if there were another god besides Allah, one would take what he created, the other would take what he created, and everything would drown in (?).

Yes. That is how it is. And they would not tolerate one another. One would take what he created, the other would take what he created. This order, the order of this universe, would be destroyed and everything would be (?). With His verses, besides His existence: the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden. That is, Huwa'l-awwalu wa'l-akhiru wa'z-zahiru wa'l-batin. He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden. That there is no other being, that is, that in response to this verse there is no other being who could be the subject of this verse, that is, la ilaha illallah, that there is no other god but Allah.

After proving it to people and to everyone who has reason, addressing people, Allah who created the worlds did not create this universe as play and amusement. This too is a verse. He says: I did not create these worlds as play and amusement. And in a verse He says: these worlds are nothing but play and amusement. Now it seems as if the two contradict each other. In one: these worlds are nothing but play and amusement. Yes: with the word He took from us in the world of the hereafter, with the characters He gave us, the scenario of our destiny that He wrote according to our (?) is, in this world, nothing but play and amusement.

We are the actors here of the scenario of our (?) there. We are playing. But this is not just play and amusement. If we have come here, we have a duty. That duty is to know our Lord. And, as the servants He created, to be able to grasp our Lord. Within our own free will.

Yes, this universe was not created as play and amusement. All created beings, living and lifeless things, have known the remembrance of their Lord, according to the verse. All created things were created for this duty. Moreover, these created beings complete their duties, and in the end the return is to Allah, according to the verse. and before the Divine presence one day they will give account. So: "In the end it comes back to Allah." As is clearly understood from that verse, all created beings and this turning wheel of the world that complete one another were created by Allah, and one day, either with death, or at the end of their duty, or at the very last with the Day of Judgement, all beings will gather in Allah's presence and give account.

Another meaning here is that all created beings, those created from the atom to the globe, according to the verse "each has known the remembrance of its Lord", every being was created with a knowledge, that created things are not a coincidence, and that when every created being is examined it is equipped with knowledge, and by this knowledge leading us to Allah, with the verse "all matters in the end come back to Allah" He proves His being once again — Allah Almighty. If one pays attention, with every verse Allah both mentions His being completely, that is, makes His existence known to us, and also shows us a way.

Moreover, from every verse separate meanings come out, and with each of its meanings, by proving Allah, it sheds light for people on the things they will do. This is among the miracles of these verses. In this respect Allah says that even if mankind and the jinn gathered together, they could not produce the like of a single verse — so He declares.