Quran — Page 445

Are they, then, not aware that it is for them that We have created, among all the things which Our hands have wrought, the domestic animals of which they are [now] masters? –

and that We have subjected them to men’s will, so that some of them they may use for riding and of some they may eat,

and may have [yet other] benefits from them, and [milk] to drink? Will they not, then, be grateful? (

But [nay,] they take to worshipping deities other than God, [hoping] to be succoured [by them, and not knowing that]

they are unable to succour their devotees, even though to them they may [appear to] be hosts drawn up [for succour].

However, be not grieved by the sayings of those [who deny the truth]: verily, We know all that they keep secret as well as all that they bring into the open.

IS MAN, then, not aware that it is We who create him out of a [mere] drop of sperm - whereupon, lo! he shows himself endowed with the power to think and to argue?

And [now] he [argues about Us, and] thinks of Us in terms of comparison, and is oblivious of how he himself was created! [And so] he says, “Who could give life to bones that have crumbled to dust?”

Say: “He who brought them into being in the first instance will give them life [once again], seeing that He has full knowledge of every act of creation:

He who produces for you fire out of the green tree, so that, lo! you kindle [your fires] therewith.”

Is, then, He who has created the heavens and the earth not able to create [anew] the like of those [who have died]? Yea, indeed - for He alone is the all-knowing Crea­tor:

His Being alone is such that when He wills a thing to be, He but says unto it, “Be” — and it is.

Limitless, then, in His glory is He in whose hand rests the mighty dominion over all things; and unto Him you all will be brought back!