Surah Ankabut ayat 19 Tafsir Quran 29:19

﴿أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا كَيْفَ يُبْدِئُ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ ۚ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ﴾
[ العنكبوت: 19]

29:19 Have they not considered how Allah begins creation and then repeats it? Indeed that, for Allah, is easy.

Have they not seen yaraw or taraw ‘have you not seen?’ observed how God originates creation yubdi’u from 4th form abda’a; a variant reading has yabda‘u from 1st form bada’a both with the same meaning ‘He creates them originally’ then He restores it namely creation just as He originated them? Surely that which is mentioned of the first and the second acts of creation is easy for God so how can they deny the second one?

Did they -the infidels- not see how Allah creates and recreates. He starts creation and reproduces it, a process quite easy for him to perpetuate

The Evidence for Life after Death Allah tells us that Ibrahim, peace be upon him, showed them the proof of life after death, which they denied, in their souls.
For Allah created them after they had been nothing at all, then they came into existence and became people who could hear and see.
The One Who originated this is able to repeat it, it is very easy for Him.
Then he taught them to contemplate the visible signs on the horizons and the things that Allah has created: the heavens with their stars and planets, moving and stationary, the earth with its plains and mountains, its valleys, deserts and wildernesses, trees and rivers, fruits and oceans.
All of that indicates that these are themselves created things, and that there must be a Creator Who does as He chooses, Who merely says to a thing "Be!" and it is.
Allah says: أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْاْ كَيْفَ يُبْدِىءُ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ إِنَّ ذلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ ( See they not how Allah originates the creation, then repeats it.
Verily, that is easy for Allah. ) This is like the Ayah: وَهُوَ الَّذِى يَبْدَأُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ وَهُوَ أَهْوَنُ عَلَيْهِ ( And He it is Who originates the creation, then He will repeat it; and this is easier for Him ) ( 30:27 ).
Then Allah says: قُلْ سِيرُواْ فِى الاٌّرْضِ فَانظُرُواْ كَيْفَ بَدَأَ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ اللَّهُ يُنشِىءُ النَّشْأَةَ الاٌّخِرَةَ ( Say: "Travel in the land and see how He originated the creation, and then Allah will bring forth the creation of the Hereafter." ) meaning, the Day of Resurrection. إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَدِيرٌ ( Verily, Allah is able to do all things. ) يُعَذِّبُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَرْحَمُ مَن يَشَآءُ ( He punishes whom He wills, and shows mercy to whom He wills; ) He is the Ruler Who is in control, Who does as He wishes and judges as He wants, and there is none who can put back His judgement.
None can question Him about what He does; rather it is they who will be questioned, for His is the power to create and to command, and whatever He decides is fair and just, for He is the sovereign who cannot be unjust in the slightest.
According to a Hadith recorded by the Sunan compilers:
«إِنَّ اللهَ لَوْ عَذَّبَ أَهْلَ سَمَاوَاتِهِ وَأَهْلَ أَرْضِهِ لَعَذَّبَهُمْ وَهُوَ غَيْرُ ظَالِم لَهُم»
( If Allah willed to punish the dwellers of His heavens and His earth, He would do so, while He would not be unjust to them. ) Allah says: يُعَذِّبُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَرْحَمُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَإِلَيْهِ تُقْلَبُونَ ( He punishes whom He wills, and shows mercy to whom He wills; and to Him you will be returned. ) You will return to Him on the Day of Resurrection. وَمَآ أَنتُمْ بِمُعْجِزِينَ فِى الاٌّرْضِ وَلاَ فِى السَّمَآءِ ( And you cannot escape on the earth or in the heaven.
) No one in heaven or on earth can flee from Him, for He is the Subduer Who is above His servants, and everything fears Him and is in need of Him, while He is the One Who is Independent of all else. وَمَا لَكُمْ مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ مِن وَلِىٍّ وَلاَ نَصِيرٍوَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ بِـَايَـتِ اللَّهِ وَلِقَآئِهِ ( And besides Allah you have neither any protector nor any helper.
And those who disbelieve in the Ayat of Allah and the meeting with Him, ) Those who disbelieved in the signs of Allah and denied the Resurrection, أُوْلَـئِكَ يَئِسُواْ مِن رَّحْمَتِى ( such have no hope of My mercy ) they will have no share in it, وَأُوْلَـئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ ( and for such there is a painful torment. ) meaning, extremely painful, in this world and the next.

(29:19) Have *31 they never observed how Allah creates for the first time and then repeats it? Indeed (to repeat the creation of a thing) is even easier for Allah *32 (than creating it for the first time).

Have they not considered how Allah begins meaning

*31) From here to the end of verse 23 is a parenthesis, which has been interposed in the story of the Prophet Abraham and addressed to the disbelievers of Makkah.
The relevance of this interposition in the story, which is being related for the admonition of the disbelievers, is that they were basically involved in two kinds of deviation: shirk and idol-worship, and the denial of the Hereafter.
The first of these has been refuted in the Prophet Abraham's speech as related above.
Now the second is being refuted in these few sentences by Allah Himself.

*32) .
That is, " On the one hand, countless new things come into existence from non-existence, and on the other, similar new members continue coming into existence to take the place of the dying members of every species.
The polytheists acknowledged that that was all due to Allah's power of creation and invention.
They never denied Allah's being a Creator, just as the polytheists of today do not do.
Therefore, the argument has been based upon what they themselves acknowledged as a reality, as if to say, "How do you think that God, Who, according to your own belief, .
brings things into existence from non-existence, and noes not create things just once, but goes on bringing into existence similar things in place of the dying things repeatedly in front of your very eyes, will not be able to raise you back to life after death ?" ( For further explanation, see E.N.
80 of Surah AnNaml ).

 

The Evidence for Life after Death Allah tells us that Ibrahim, peace be upon him, showed them the proof of life after death, which they denied, in their souls.
For Allah created them after they had been nothing at all, then they came into existence and became people who could hear and see.
The One Who originated this is able to repeat it, it is very easy for Him.
Then he taught them to contemplate the visible signs on the horizons and the things that Allah has created: the heavens with their stars and planets, moving and stationary, the earth with its plains and mountains, its valleys, deserts and wildernesses, trees and rivers, fruits and oceans.
All of that indicates that these are themselves created things, and that there must be a Creator Who does as He chooses, Who merely says to a thing "Be!" and it is.
Allah says: أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْاْ كَيْفَ يُبْدِىءُ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ إِنَّ ذلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ ( See they not how Allah originates the creation, then repeats it.
Verily, that is easy for Allah. ) This is like the Ayah: وَهُوَ الَّذِى يَبْدَأُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ وَهُوَ أَهْوَنُ عَلَيْهِ ( And He it is Who originates the creation, then He will repeat it; and this is easier for Him ) ( 30:27 ).
Then Allah says: قُلْ سِيرُواْ فِى الاٌّرْضِ فَانظُرُواْ كَيْفَ بَدَأَ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ اللَّهُ يُنشِىءُ النَّشْأَةَ الاٌّخِرَةَ ( Say: "Travel in the land and see how He originated the creation, and then Allah will bring forth the creation of the Hereafter." ) meaning, the Day of Resurrection. إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَدِيرٌ ( Verily, Allah is able to do all things. ) يُعَذِّبُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَرْحَمُ مَن يَشَآءُ ( He punishes whom He wills, and shows mercy to whom He wills; ) He is the Ruler Who is in control, Who does as He wishes and judges as He wants, and there is none who can put back His judgement.
None can question Him about what He does; rather it is they who will be questioned, for His is the power to create and to command, and whatever He decides is fair and just, for He is the sovereign who cannot be unjust in the slightest.
According to a Hadith recorded by the Sunan compilers: «إِنَّ اللهَ لَوْ عَذَّبَ أَهْلَ سَمَاوَاتِهِ وَأَهْلَ أَرْضِهِ لَعَذَّبَهُمْ وَهُوَ غَيْرُ ظَالِم لَهُم» ( If Allah willed to punish the dwellers of His heavens and His earth, He would do so, while He would not be unjust to them. ) Allah says: يُعَذِّبُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَرْحَمُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَإِلَيْهِ تُقْلَبُونَ ( He punishes whom He wills, and shows mercy to whom He wills; and to Him you will be returned. ) You will return to Him on the Day of Resurrection. وَمَآ أَنتُمْ بِمُعْجِزِينَ فِى الاٌّرْضِ وَلاَ فِى السَّمَآءِ ( And you cannot escape on the earth or in the heaven.
) No one in heaven or on earth can flee from Him, for He is the Subduer Who is above His servants, and everything fears Him and is in need of Him, while He is the One Who is Independent of all else. وَمَا لَكُمْ مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ مِن وَلِىٍّ وَلاَ نَصِيرٍوَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ بِـَايَـتِ اللَّهِ وَلِقَآئِهِ ( And besides Allah you have neither any protector nor any helper.
And those who disbelieve in the Ayat of Allah and the meeting with Him, ) Those who disbelieved in the signs of Allah and denied the Resurrection, أُوْلَـئِكَ يَئِسُواْ مِن رَّحْمَتِى ( such have no hope of My mercy ) they will have no share in it, وَأُوْلَـئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ ( and for such there is a painful torment. ) meaning, extremely painful, in this world and the next.

( See they not ) have the disbelievers of Mecca not been informed in the Book ( how Allah produceth creation ) from a sperm drop, ( then reproduceth it ) on the Day of Judgement? ( Lo! for Allah that is easy ) its production and reproduction is easy.

See they not how Allah originates creation, then repeats it. Verily, that is easy for Allah.

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