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CH. 57 AL-HADID PT. 27 وَاللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ wheresoever you may be. And Allah sees all that you do. 4149 لَهُ مُلكُ السَّمواتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَإِلَى اللهِ His is the Kingdom of the. 6 تُرْجَعُ الْأُمُورُ heavens and the earth;" and to Allah are all affairs referred for final judgement. يُولِجُ الَّيْلَ فِي النَّهَارِ وَيُولِجُ النَّهَارَ فِي He causes the night to pass. 7 into the day and causes the day b to pass into the night; and He knows full well all that is in the breasts. 4150 الَّيْلِ وَهُوَ عَلِيمٌ بِذَاتِ الصُّدُورِه امِنُوا بِاللهِ وَرَسُوْلِهِ وَاَنْفِقُوْا مِمَّا جَعَلَكُمْ Believe in Allah and His. 8 Messenger, and spend in the مُّسْتَخْلَفِيْنَ فِيْهِ فَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ way of Allah out of that to which He has made you heirs. "2:108; 7:159; 43:86. 22:62; 31:30; 35:14. 4149. Commentary: For a detailed note on the first part of this verse see7:55; 10:4 and 41:10- 11, and for the latter part see 34:3. The six periods or stages of evolution referred to in the verse may be those of the ether, nebula, electrons, minerals, plants and animals. Very briefly, the verse may signify that after God had created the heavens and the earth in six periods or stages, He began to control and govern the universe through set laws, and that as He made provision for the physical sustenance and development of man, so did He make similar provision for his spiritual evolution. But God alone knew when a particular divine teaching was needed for a particular people; also when to take it back to heaven, i. e. to abrogate it, when it was corrupted and ceased to fulfil the spiritual needs of the people to whom when to reveal a new teaching. And it was given. And He alone knew now that God has revealed the Quran, He will be with the Muslims wheresoever they may be because to them is entrusted the preaching of the last Divine Message. 4150. Commentary: In the preceding verse it was pointed out that now that God has chosen the Companions of the Holy Prophet for the bestowal of His special favours and has entrusted to them the preaching of the Quranic Message, He will give them power and predominance in the world because His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. The present verse, continuing the theme, purports to say that the night of decline and degradation that had enveloped Arabia is about to pass away 3094