ﱠ ﱡ ﱢ ﱣ ﱤ ﱥ ﱦ ﱧ ﱨ ﱩ ﱪ ﱫ ﱬ ﱭ ﱮ ﱯ ﱰ ﱱ ﱲ ﱳ ﱴ ﱵ ﱶ ﱷ ﱸ ﱹ ﱺ ﱻ ﱼ ﱽ ﱾ
He causes the night to enter the day, and He causes the day to enter the night and has subjected the sun and the moon - each running [its course] for a specified term. That is Allah, your Lord; to Him belongs sovereignty. And those whom you invoke other than Him do not possess [as much as] the membrane of a date seed.
Tafsir
Verse range: 35:13
The gods of the Idolators do not even own a Qitmir Allah says,
يولج الليل في النهار ويولج النهار في الليل
He merges the night into the day, and He merges the day into the night. Another aspect of His perfect power and might is that He has subjugated the night with its darkness and the day with its light. He takes from the length of the one and adds it to the shortness of the other, until they become equal. Then He takes from the latter and adds to the former, so one becomes long and the other becomes short, so they take from one another in summer and in winter.
وسخر الشمس والقمر
And He has subjected the sun and the moon, and the stars and planets, with their light. All of them run in their appointed courses and in the manner prescribed for them, as decreed by the Almighty, All-Knowing.
كل يجري ﻻجل مسمى
each runs its course for a term appointed. means, until the Day of Resurrection.
ذلكم الله ربكم
Such is Allah, your Lord. means, the One Who has done all this is the Almighty Lord besides Whom there is no other true God.
له الملك والذين تدعون من دونه
And those, whom you invoke or call upon instead of Him, means, `the idols and false gods whom you claim to be in the form of angels who are close to Allah,'
ما يملكون من قطمير
own not even a Qitmir. Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, Mujahid, Ikrimah, Ata, Atiyah Al-Awfi, Al-Hasan, Qatadah and others said, This is the thread that is attached to the pit of a date. In other words, they do not possess anything in the heavens or on earth, not even anything equivalent to this Qitmir. Then Allah says:
