Sentence Three

March 20, 2006 at 3:59 am (Ayatul Kursi)

[THIRD]

لَهُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْض(البقرة: من الآية255)

"To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens1 and the earth,”

In the name (ما) ‘maa’

  • There is a conjunctive noun (gram .ism mawsool) taking a form of generalization.
  • The term is used in this form in order to indicate that is comprised both the beings and their states.
  • The meaning is that Allah is the One who masters the affairs of everything in existence in the heavens and the: creating, sovereignty-kingship, and management.

In the sentence, لَهُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْض , To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth,”

  • Is a declarative clause in which the predicate (gram. Khabar) ( له )
  • “To Him” has preceded the subject (gram, munbtada) which is conjunctive noun ( ما ) “whatever” .
  • There is a grammatical state of hast {exclusivity, restriction} which signifies that to Him (Allah alone belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth.
  • Accordingly, since creating, sovereignty – kingship and management of affairs belongs to Allah alone, it is incumbent that we should surrender to Him alone because we are His slaves and slaves must surrender to One Who Owns and Masters him, Allah, the One free of all imperfection, the Most High.

We must persevere to Allah’s pre-decree because we are His possession. Everything is owned by Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, then it follows that is his right that His pre-decree applies to the person himself, his family, wealth, friends, country, or the dominion belongs to Allah, then it is His exclusive to do whatever he wills. In the saying of Allah ( which means ), “ To His belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth” the term “ heavens” came in the plural form2 while the word “earth” was stated in the singular though what is meant in the plural.

 

 

References:

  1. From the angles, jinn, and all that which exits, including which we have no knowledge of.
  2. The Qur’aan has started that there are seven heavens:قُلْ مَنْ رَبُّ السَّمَاوَاتِ السَّبْعِ وَرَبُّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِ) (المؤمنون:86) Regard, the intended usage to the term “earth” refers to the jins (kind).

 

1 Comment

  1. alia said,

    May 7, 2006 at 4:35 am

    * Allaah swt OWNS everything including us… so HE swt can do whatever He wishes with us. We must submit, surrender and be content with qadr Allaah.
    * Also, to me the fact that HE swt created us and KNOWS everything… who else can ‘decide’ or ‘do’ something better of us then Allaah swt himself? I know this is easy said then done…because at times of hardships/calamities we may not take this seriously and thats when tawaqul Allaah matters the most, not hours later or days later of the event! May Allaah swt make us all among his thankfull abds (ameen)

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