Lakhalqu assamawati wal-ardi akbaru min khalqi annasi walakinna akthara annasi la yaAAlamoon (surah Ghafir: 57)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(40:57) Surely *78 the creation of the heavens and the earth is a greater act than the creation of human beings. But most people do not know. *79

Lakhalqus samaawaati wal ardi akbaru min khalqin naasi wa laakinna aksaran naasi laa ya`lamoon

*78) After reviewing the conspiracies and plots of the chiefs of the Quraish in vv. 21-56, the address is now being directed towards the common people, and they are being made to understand that the truths to which Muhammad (upon whom be Allah's peace) is inviting them, are absolutely rational, as if to say: "Your own good and well-being lies in accepting them and rejecting them is ruinous for your own selves." In this connection, first of alI arguments have been given for the doctrine of the Hereafter, for the disbelievers regarded this very doctrine as most bewildering and incomprehensible.
*79) This is an argument for the possibility of the Hereafter. The disbelievers thought it was impossible for man to be resurrected after death. In answer to this, it is being said: "Those who talk like this are, in fact, ignorant. If they use their common sense, they will easily understand that for that God Who has created this wonderful Universe it cannot at all be difficult to create men once again."