51:49 Adh-Dhaariyat (The Winnowing Winds)

ومن كل شيء من أجناس الموجودات خلقنا نوعين مختلفين؛ لكي تتذكروا قدرة الله، وتعتبروا.

{ وَمِنْ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقْنَا زَوْجَيْنِ } [أي: صنفين]، ذكر وأنثى، من كل نوع من أنواع الحيوانات، { لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ } [لنعم الله التي أنعم بها عليكم] في تقدير ذلك، وحكمته حيث جعل ما هو السبب لبقاء نوع الحيوانات كلها، لتقوموا بتنميتها وخدمتها وتربيتها، فيحصل من ذلك ما يحصل من المنافع.

"ومن كل شيء خلقنا زوجين" أي جميع المخلوقات أزواج سماء وأرض وليل ونهار وشمس وقمر وبر وبحر وضياء وظلام وإيمان وكفر وموت وحياة وشقاء وسعادة وجنة ونار حتى الحيوانات والنباتات ولهذا قال تعالى "لعلكم تذكرون" أي لتعلموا أن الخالق واحد لا شريك له.

And of all things wa-min kulli shay’in is semantically connected to His following words khalaqnā We created pairs two kinds such as male and female heaven and earth sun and moon plain and mountain summer and winter sweet and bitter light and darkness that perhaps you might remember tadhakkarūna one of the two original tā’ letters of tatadhakkarūna has been omitted and hence realise that the Creator of pairs is Himself Singular that you might then worship him.

Proofs of Allah's Oneness abound in the Creation of the Heavens and Earth

The preceding verses mentioned the reality of the Hereafter and the Judgment Day, and the punishment of those who denied the reality. The present set of verses reaffirm the perfect power of Allah, reminding us about the reality of the Day of Resurrection and allaying the doubt and suspicion of those who deny the reality. It proves the oneness of Allah and reiterates emphatically to believe in the Messenger ﷺ .

بَنَيْنَاهَا بِأَيْدٍ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ (And the sky was built by Us with might, and indeed, We are the One who expands.... 51:47). The word aidin, according to Sayyidna Ibn ` Abbas ؓ ، means strength or power in this context.

Of everything We created a pair. In this verse there is an affirmation of the Lord's solitariness and unity. When God creates newly arrived things and engendered beings, He creates them as pairs, whether linked to each other or opposed to each other. For example: male and female, day and night, light and darkness, heaven and earth, land and sea, sun and moon, jinn and mankind, obedience and disobedience, felicity and wretchedness, guidance and misguidance, exaltation and abasement, power and incapacity, strength and weakness, knowledge and ignorance, life and death. He created the attributes of the creatures in this manner-paired with each other or opposed to each other-so that they would not resemble the attributes of the Creator. Thus His unity and solitariness would become manifest to them, for His exaltation has no abasement, His power no incapacity, His strength no weakness, His knowledge no ignorance, His life no death, His joy no sorrow, His subsistence no annihilation. The uniquely one God is one in Essence and attributes, unique in worthiness. He is incompa- rable with everyone and separate from everything. Nothing is as His likeness [42:11]. No one is like Him and nothing is similar to or resembles Him. Resemblance derives from partnership, and God has no associate or partner. He is without equal and without need. The door of His withholding is shut and the door of His munificence open. He forgives sins and caresses the faulty. He makes His love apparent by caressing servants. He loves His servants, though He has no needs. He brings about love between Himself and the servants without associa- tion or partnership. Thus the servants, no matter what their states-whether wounded by the ar- row of trial or drowned in gentleness and bestowal-should seize hold of His generosity and seek shelter in Him, fleeing to Him from the creatures. This is why He issues the command, “So flee to God!” [51:50].