Translation:
No misfortune can happen on earth or in your souls 5308 but is recorded in a decree before We bring 5309 it into existence: That is truly easy for Allah.
No misfortune can happen on earth or in your souls 5308 but is recorded in a decree before We bring 5309 it into existence: That is truly easy for Allah.
Translation:
NO CALAMITY can ever befall the earth, and neither your own selves, 35 unless it be [laid down] in Our decree before We bring it into being: verily, all this 36 is easy for God.
NO CALAMITY can ever befall the earth, and neither your own selves, 35 unless it be [laid down] in Our decree before We bring it into being: verily, all this 36 is easy for God.
Commentary:
35 I.e., "the earth or mankind as a whole, or any of you individually": an allusion to natural as well as man-made catastrophes, and to individual suffering through illness, moral or material deprivation, etc.
36 I.e.. God’s decreeing an event and bringing it into being.
35 I.e., "the earth or mankind as a whole, or any of you individually": an allusion to natural as well as man-made catastrophes, and to individual suffering through illness, moral or material deprivation, etc.
36 I.e.. God’s decreeing an event and bringing it into being.
5308 External disasters or misfortunes may strike people's eye or imagination, but there are worse crises and misfortunes in the spiritual world, which are of equal or greater importance to man's future. All this happens according to the Will and Plan of Allah. Even where we are allowed the exercise of our own wills, the consequences that follow are in accordance with the laws and Plan decreed by Allah beforehand.
5309 For bara'a, 'to bring into existence', and other words denoting Allah's creative energy, see n. 120 to 2:117; n. 916 to 6:94; and n. 923 to 6:98.