Tafheem-ul-Quran (En) - Faatir : 13
یُوْلِجُ الَّیْلَ فِی النَّهَارِ وَ یُوْلِجُ النَّهَارَ فِی الَّیْلِ١ۙ وَ سَخَّرَ الشَّمْسَ وَ الْقَمَرَ١ۖ٘ كُلٌّ یَّجْرِیْ لِاَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى١ؕ ذٰلِكُمُ اللّٰهُ رَبُّكُمْ لَهُ الْمُلْكُ١ؕ وَ الَّذِیْنَ تَدْعُوْنَ مِنْ دُوْنِهٖ مَا یَمْلِكُوْنَ مِنْ قِطْمِیْرٍؕ
He causes the night to pass into the day and the day into the night 30 and He has subjected the sun and the moon till an appointed time. 31 The same Allah (Whose works are these) is your Lord: Sovereignty is His. Those whom you invoke instead of Him do not own even a blade of grass. 32
30 That is, "The light of the day starts diminishing and the darkness of the night increasing gradually so as to cover up everything completely. Likewise, towards the end of the night, in the beginning, a streak of the light appears on the horizon, and then the bright day dawns." 31 "Subjected .." : subjected to a law. 32 The word qitmira in the original means the thin skin that covers the stone of the date-fruit; but what is meant to be said is that the gods of the mushriks do not own anything whatever. That is why we have translated it "a blade of grass", which is an insignificant thing.
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