God's Sovereignty in Creation

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وأخرج منهاجًا وأبًا جعله أقواتا،

And He brought forth from it pasture and fodder, making them provisions.

وصيرها مساكن الخلق تربيهم صغارًا وتضمهم رفاتا،

And He made it a dwelling for His creatures — raising them as children and gathering them as remains.

وكتب لفناء ساكنيها عمرًا مقدرًا وميقاتا،

And He decreed for its inhabitants a measured lifespan and an appointed time.

فقضى لهم حياة وقضى عليهم مماتا،

So He decreed for them life, and He decreed upon them death.

ما تأتي عبرة مثل أن أباك وأمك ماتا،

No lesson strikes home like the fact that your father and your mother have died.

ألم نَجعَلُ الأرضَ كِفاتا، أحياءً وأمواتا

'Have We not made the earth a container — for the living and the dead?'