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Surah Al-Hajj, Ayah 70 (22:70)

ٱلْحَجّ

أَلَمْ تَعْلَمْ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ مَا فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۗ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ فِى كِتَٰبٍ ۚ إِنَّ …

Quran 22:70 is ayah 70 of Surah Al-Hajj (“The Pilgrimage”), a Medinan surah of 78 ayahs. It is in Juz 17, on page 340 of the Madani Mushaf.

22:70
أَلَمْتَعْلَمْأَنَّٱللَّهَيَعْلَمُمَافِىٱلسَّمَآءِوَٱلْأَرْضِ ۗإِنَّذَٰلِكَفِىكِتَٰبٍ ۚإِنَّذَٰلِكَعَلَىٱللَّهِيَسِيرٌ٧٠
alam taʿlam anna l-laha yaʿlamu mā fī l-samāi wal-arḍi inna dhālika fī kitābin inna dhālika ʿalā l-lahi yasīrun

Do you not know that Allāh knows what is in the heaven and earth? Indeed, that is in a Record. Indeed that, for Allāh, is easy.(70)

Word by word

  1. أَلَمْalamDo not
  2. تَعْلَمْtaʿlamyou know
  3. أَنَّannathat
  4. ٱللَّهَl-lahaAllah
  5. يَعْلَمُyaʿlamuknows
  6. مَاmāwhat
  7. فِىfī(is) in
  8. ٱلسَّمَآءِl-samāithe heaven
  9. وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۗwal-arḍiand the earth
  10. إِنَّinnaIndeed
  11. ذَٰلِكَdhālikathat
  12. فِىfī(is) in
  13. كِتَٰبٍ ۚkitābina Record
  14. إِنَّinnaindeed
  15. ذَٰلِكَdhālikathat
  16. عَلَىʿalā(is) for
  17. ٱللَّهِl-lahiAllah
  18. يَسِيرٌyasīruneasy

Tafsir (commentary) of 22:70

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Allah tells us how perfect is His knowledge of His creation, and that He encompasses all that is in the heavens and on earth

Not even the weight of a speck of dust, or less than that or greater escapes His knowledge in the heavens or in the earth. He knows all things even before they happen, and He has written that in His Book, Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuz, as was reported in Sahih Muslim from `Abdullah bin `Amr, who said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

«إِنَّ اللهَ قَدَّرَ مَقَادِيرَ الْخَلَائِقِ قَبْلَ خَلْقِ السَّموَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ بِخَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ، وَكَانَ عَرْشُهُ عَلَى الْمَاء»

(Allah issued His decrees concerning the measurement and due proportion of the creatures fifty thousand years before He created the heavens and the earth, and His Throne was over the water.) In the Sunan, it was reported from a group of the Companions that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

«أَوَّلُ مَا خَلَقَ اللهُ الْقَلَمُ، قَالَ لَهُ: اكْتُبْ، قَالَ: وَ مَا أَكْتُبُ؟ قَالَ: اكْتُبْ مَا هُوَ كَائِنٌ، فَجَرَى الْقَلَمُ بِمَا هُوَ كَائِنٌ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَة»

(The first thing that Allah created was the Pen. He said to it, "Write!" It said, "What should I write" He said, "Write what will happen," so the Pen wrote everything that will happen until the Day of Resurrection.) Allah says:

إِنَّ ذلِكَ فِى كِتَـبٍ إِنَّ ذلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ

(Verily, it is (all) in the Book. Verily, that is easy for Allah.)

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