1) Who Possess the Power: Allah or the idols?
2) Allah subdued the light of the Sun and the Moon to the Service of human beings
3) None can inform you like the One Who is Aware, Knower, Allah, exalted be He
4) The deities will absolve themselves from you for associating them as partners with Allah
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Many people do not know Allah. This series is an attempt to help them in order to know and acknowledge their Creator.
Verses 35:13-14 of the Noble Quran says that Allah subdued the light of the Sun and the Moon to the Service of human beings; to Allah Belongs all Sovereignty. The deities will absolve themselves from you for associating them as partners with Allah and for worshipping them beside Allah; and none can inform you like the One Who is Aware, Knower, Allah, exalted be He.
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The meaning of verse 35:13:
He, Allah, makes the night pass, enter, into the day, so that it becomes longer, for instance, six hours, and He makes the day pass into the night, so that it becomes longer, by, let us say, six hours.
He subdued the light of the sun and the moon to the service of human beings.
And He has disposed the sun and the moon, each, of them, moving, in its course, to an appointed term up to the Day of Resurrection. That is Allah, your Lord; to Him belongs all sovereignty.
As for those on whom you call, whom you worship, besides Him, in other words, other than Him; and they are the idols; they do not possess even so much as the husk of a date-stone.
In other words, it is Allah, your Lord, Who does so, not the deities; (His is the Sovereignty) the storehouses of the universe; (and those unto whom you pray) those whom you worship (instead of Him) instead of Allah (own not so much as the white spot on a date stone) they are unable to own of all that even the white spot on a date stone.
The meaning of verse 35:14:
If you call on them, If you pray unto them i.e. the deities they will not hear your call and they hear not your prayer) because they are deaf and dumb, and even if they heard —hypothetically speaking — they would not be able to respond to you; and on the Day of Resurrection they will disown your idolatrous associations,
The deities will absolve themselves from you for associating them as partners with Allah and for worshipping them beside Allah.
in other words, your associating them with Allah in power, that is to say, they will declare themselves innocent of you and of your worship of them. And none can inform you, about the state in the two abodes, like One Who is Aware, Knower, and this is Allah, exalted be He.
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Verses 35:13-14 in different English translations
QARIB:
13) He causes the night to enter into the day and the day into the night. he has subjected the sun and the moon each running for a named term. such is Allah, your lord. to him belongs the kingdom; and those whom you call upon, other than him, do not possess even as much as the membrane of a datestone.
14) If you supplicate to them they cannot hear your supplication, and if they heard, they cannot answer you. on the day of resurrection they will disown your associating. none can tell you like he who is the aware.
SHAKIR:
13) He causes the night to enter in upon the day, and he causes the day to enter in upon the night, and he has made subservient (to you) the sun and the moon; each one follows its course to an appointed time; this is Allah, your lord, his is the kingdom; and those whom you call upon besides him do not control a straw
14) If you call on them they shall not hear your call, and even if they could hear they shall not answer you; and on the resurrection day they will deny your associating them (with Allah); and none can inform you like the one who is aware
PICKTHAL:
13) He maketh the night to pass into the day and he maketh the day to pass into the night. he hath subdued the sun and moon to service. each runneth unto an appointed term. such is Allah, your lord; his is the sovereignty; and those unto whom ye pray instead of him own not so much as the white spot on a date-stone.
14) If ye pray unto them they hear not your prayer, and if they heard they could not grant it you. on the day of resurrection they will disown association with you. none can inform you like him who is aware.
YUSUFALI:
13) He merges night into day, and he merges day into night, and he has subjected the sun and the moon (to his law): each one runs its course for a term appointed. such is Allah your lord: to him belongs all dominion. and those whom ye invoke besides him have not the least power.
14) If ye invoke them, they will not listen to your call, and if they were to listen, they cannot answer your (prayer). on the day of judgment they will reject your “partnership”. and none, (o man!) can tell thee (the truth) like the one who is acquainted with all things.
Then the following verse is 35:15 says:
QARIB:
People, it is you who are in need of Allah. he is the rich, the praised.
SHAKIR:
O men! you are they who stand in need of Allah, and Allah is he who is the self-sufficient, the praised one
PICKTHAL:
O mankind! ye are the poor in your relation to Allah. and Allah! he is the absolute, the owner of praise.
YUSUFALI:
O ye men! it is ye that have need of Allah: but Allah is the one free of all wants, worthy of all praise.
And this will be discussed in the next article.
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