67.23. Qul huwa alladhii anschaakum wadschaAAalalakumu alssamAAa waal-absara waal-af-idataqaliilan ma taschkuruuna
67.23. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): He it is Who gave you being, and hath assigned unto you ears and eyes and hearts. Small thanks give ye! (Pickthall)
67.23. Sag: Er ist derjenige, der euch entstehen ließ, und Er hat für euch das Hören gemacht und die Blicke und die Herzen. Wenig ist es, was ihr dankt! (Ahmad v. Denffer)
67.23. Sag: Er ist es, Der euch hat entstehen lassen und euch Gehör, Augenlicht und Herzen gemacht hat. Wie wenig ihr dankbar seid! (Bubenheim)
67.23. Sprich: "Er ist es, Der euch erschaffen und euch Gehör, Augenlicht und Herz gegeben hat. Wie wenig dankt ihr dafür!" (Azhar)
67.23. Sag: ‚ER ist Derjenige, Der euch erstehen ließ, und ER machte euch das Gehör, die Augen und den Verstand.“ Nur ein wenig erweist ihr euch dankbar. (Zaidan)
67.23. Sag: Er ist es, der euch (Menschen) hat entstehen lassen und euch Gehör, Gesicht und Verstand gegeben hat. Wie wenig dankbar seid ihr! (Paret)
67.23. Sprich: "Er ist es, Der euch ins Dasein rief und Der euch Ohren und Augen und Herzen gab; (aber) gering ist es, was ihr an Dank wißt!" (Rasul)
Tafsir von Maududi für die Ayaat 15 bis 23
He it is Who has subdued the earth to you. So walk about on its chest and eat of God's provisions: ( 23 ) to Him you shall return on Resurrection ( 24 ) Do you feel secure that He Who is in the heaven ( 25 ) would not cause you to sink underground, and the earth may start rocking suddenly? Do you feel secure that He Who is in the heaven would not send a whirlwind charged with stones on you? ( 26 ) Then you shall know how terrible was My warning! ( 27 ) And those who have gone before them also belied. Then see how severe was My chastisement! ( 28 ) Do they not see the birds above them, spreading their wings and closing them? None is upholding them but the Mercifu1. ( 29 ) He it is Who watches over everything. ( 30 ) Tell, what army is there with you that can help you against the Merciful. ( 31 ) The fact is that the disbelievers are lost in utter delusion. Or tell, who is there to provide for you if the Merciful should withhold His provision? In fact, these people persist in rebellion and aversion from the Truth. Just consider: Is he who is walking prone on his face ( 32 ) better guided or he who is walking upright on a smooth road? Say to them, "Allah it is Who created you, and gave you the faculties of hearing and sight and gave you the hearts to think and understand, but you are seldom grateful." ( 33 )
Desc No: 23 That is, "This earth has not become subdued for you of its own accord, and the provisions also that you are eating have not become available here by themselves, but Allah has so arranged it by His wisdom and power that your life became possible here and this splendid globe became so peaceful that you are moving about on it with full peace of mind, and it has become such a vast table spread with food that it contains endless and limitless provisions for your sustenance. If you are not lost in heedlessness and look about yourself intelligently you will find how much wisdom underlies the making of this earth habitable for you and arranging in it immeasurable stores of provisions for you." (For explanation, see E.N.'s 73, 74, 81 of Surah An-Naml, E.N.'s 29, 32 of Ya Sin, E.N.'s 90, 91 of Al-Mu'min, E.N. 7 of Az-Zukhruf, E,N. 7 of Al-Jathiyah, E,N. 18 of Surah Qaf.)
Desc No: 24 That is, "While you move about on the earth and eat of what Allah has. provided for you here, you should not forget that ultimately you have to appear before God one day."
Desc No: 25 This does trot mean that Allah lives in the heavens, but it has been so said because man naturally looks up to the heaven whenever he wants to turn to Allah, raises his hands heavenward in prayer and implores Allah turning his eyes up to heaven whenever he finds himself helpless in an affliction. Then whenever a calamity befalls him suddenly, he says it has descended from heaven; whenever something unusual happens, he says it has come from heaven; and he calls the Books revealed by Allah as heavenly Books. Accordingly to a tradition-in Abu Da'ud, a person came before the Holy Prophet with a black slave-girl and said: "It has become obligatory on me to set a slave free; can 1 set this slave-girl free? Holy Prophet asked the slave-girl, "Where is Allah?" She pointed heavenward with her forger. The Holy Prophet asked, "Who am I?" She first pointed towards him and then towards the heaven, by which she obviously meant to say: "You have come from Allah." Thereupon the Holy Prophet said: "Set her free; she is a believer." (A story closely resembling this has been narrated in Mu'watta, Muslim and Nasa'i also). About Hadrat Khawla bint Tha`Ibah.. Hadrat 'Umar once said to the people: "She is the lady whose complaint was heard above the seven heavens" (In E.N. 2 of Surah al-Mujadalah, we have given full details concerning this). All this clearly shows that it is natural with man that whenever he thinks of God, his mind turns to the heaven above and not to the earth below. In view of this very thing the words man fis-samaa. (He Who is in the heaven) have been used about Allah. There is no room here for any doubt that the Qur'an regards Allah Almighty as living in the heaven. In fact, there cannot be any basis for this doubt, for in the very beginning of this Surah Al-hulk, it has been stated: "He Who created seven heavens, one above the other", and in Al-Baqarah it has been said "You will face Allah in whatever direction you turn your face." (v : I15)
Desc No: 26 The object is to impress this: " Your very survival and well-being on the earth are at all tunes dependent upon Allah Almighty's grace and bounty: you are not strutting about on this earth at will by your own power: you are under obligation only to Allah's protection for each moment of your life that you are passing here, otherwise Allah at any moment may cause such an earthquake to occur as may make this very earth to become your grave instead of the cradle that it is, or may cause a windstorm to blow razing all your towns and settlements to the ground. "
Desc No: 27 "My warning": the warning that was being given through the Holy Prophet (upon whom be peace) and the Qur'an to the disbelievers of Makkah to the effect: "If you do not refrain from your disbelief and polytheism and do not accept the message of Tauhid being given to you, you will be overtaken by the scourge of God."
Desc No: 28 The allusion is to the communities who had belied the Messengers, who had come to them previously and consequently been afflicted with Divine punishment.
Desc No: 29 That is, each bird that flies in the air, dces so in the protection of the AII-Merciful God. He it is Who has given to each bird the form and structure by which it became able to fly; He it is Who has taught each bird the method to fly; He it is Who has made the air obey the laws by which it became possible for the heavier than air bodies to fly in it; and He it is Who upholds every bird in the air; otherwise the moment Allah withdraws His protection from it, it drops to the ground.
Desc No: 30 That is, this is not confined only to birds, but whatever exists in the world, exists because of Allah's keeping and guardianship. He alone provides the . means necessary for the existence of everything, and He alone keeps watch that everything created by Him is provided with the necessities of life.
Desc No: 31 Another translation can be: "Who is there beside the Merciful, who comes to your rescue as your army?" The translation that we have adopted in the text above has relevance to the following sentence, and this second to the preceding discourse.
Desc No: 32 "Walking prone on his face": walking with face turned down like the cattle on the same track on which someone put him.
Desc No: 33 That is, "Allah had made you men, not cattle. You were not meant to follow blindly whatever error and deviation you found prevailing in the world, without considering for a moment whether the way you had adopted was right or wrong. You had not been given these ears that you may refuse to listen to the one who tries to distinguish the right from the wrong for you, and may persist in whatever false notions you already had in your mind; you had not been given these eyes that you may follow others like the blind and may not bother to see whether the signs scattered around you in the world testified to the Unity of God, which the Messenger of God is preaching, or whether the system of the universe is Godless, or is being run by many, gods simultaneously. Likewise, you had also not been given this knowledge and intelligence that you may give up thinking and understanding to others and may adopt every crooked way that was enforced by somebody in the world, and may not use your own intellect to see whether it was right or wrong. Allah had blessed you with knowledge and intelligence, sight and hearing, so that you may recognize the truth, but you are being ungrateful to Him in that you are employing these faculties for every other object than the one for which these had been granted." (For further explanation, see E.N.'s 72, 73 of AnNaml E.N.'s 75, 76 of AI-Mu'minun, E.N.'s 17, 18 of As-Sajdah, E.N. 31 of AI-Ahqaf). "
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