Translation:
If indeed you ask them 3493 who has created the heavens and the earth and subjected 3494 the sun and the moon (to his Law), they will certainly reply, "(Allah)". How are they then deluded away (from the truth)?
If indeed you ask them 3493 who has created the heavens and the earth and subjected 3494 the sun and the moon (to his Law), they will certainly reply, "(Allah)". How are they then deluded away (from the truth)?
Translation:
And thus it is [with most people]: 55 if thou ask them, “Who is it that has created the heavens and the earth, and made the sun and the moon subservient [to His laws]?” - they will surely answer, “God.” How perverted, then, are their minds! 56
And thus it is [with most people]: 55 if thou ask them, “Who is it that has created the heavens and the earth, and made the sun and the moon subservient [to His laws]?” - they will surely answer, “God.” How perverted, then, are their minds! 56
Commentary:
55 Regarding my rendering of la’in as "thus it is: if…," etc., see surah 30 note 45. The people spoken of in the sequence are such as do acknowledge the existence of God but have only a vague idea as to what this acknowledgment implies on should imply.
56 See surah 5 note 90. The perversion consists in their thinking that they really "believe in God" and nevertheless worshipping false values and allegedly "divine" powers side by side with Him: all of which amounts to a virtual denial of His almightiness and uniqueness.
55 Regarding my rendering of la’in as "thus it is: if…," etc., see surah 30 note 45. The people spoken of in the sequence are such as do acknowledge the existence of God but have only a vague idea as to what this acknowledgment implies on should imply.
56 See surah 5 note 90. The perversion consists in their thinking that they really "believe in God" and nevertheless worshipping false values and allegedly "divine" powers side by side with Him: all of which amounts to a virtual denial of His almightiness and uniqueness.
3493 Cf. 23:84-89. "Them" in both passages refers to the sort of inconsistent men who acknowledge the power of Allah, but are deluded by false notions into disobedience of Allah's Law and disregard of Allah's Message (see also 31:25, 43:9, and 43:11).
3494 Cf. 13:2, and 23:85. The perfect order and law of Allah's universe should be Signs to man's intelligence to get his own will into tune with Allah's Will; for only so can he hope to attain his full development.