Transliteration:( Allaahul lazee khalaqa kum summa razaqakum summa yumeetukum summa yuhyeekum hal min shurakaaa'ikum mai yaf'alu min zaalikum min shai'; Sub haanahoo wa Ta'aalaa 'ammaa yushrikoon (section 4) )
"Allah is He Who has created you, and then provides [87] for you. Then He will cause you to die, and then He will give you life [88]. Then is there any of your associates who may do [89] any of these things? Glorified and Exalted is He, free from what they associate."
Allah is the One Who has created you, and then ensured your sustenance.
For your physical life, He provides external nourishment through fields, gardens, and food.
For your spiritual life, He has granted inner nourishment like faith and piety, which flowed from the sacred soil of Madinah through the message of the Holy Prophet ﷺ.
After giving life and providing sustenance, Allah causes death.
Then, at the blowing of the Second Trumpet, He will resurrect you.
This earthly life is temporary, meant for the accumulation of deeds.
That next life is eternal, intended for reward or punishment. It is spiritual and everlasting, hence no mention of death after that life.
Even in their own beliefs, the polytheists of Makkah never claimed that their idols could create, provide, cause death, or bring to life.
This verse exposes the irrationality of associating partners with Allah, for only He alone possesses these absolute powers.
Hence, Allah is far above the falsehoods they ascribe to Him.
The tafsir of Surah Ar-Rum verse 40 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Rum ayat 38 which provides the complete commentary from verse 38 through 40.
(30:40) It is Allah[61] Who created you, then bestowed upon you your sustenance,[62] and He will cause you to die and then will bring you back to life. Can any of those whom you associate with Allah in His Divinity! do any such thing?[63] Glory be to Him and exalted be He above whatever they associate with Allah in His Divinity.
61. From here again the discourse turns to the theme of Tauhid and the Hereafter for the admonition of the disbelievers and the mushriks.
62. That is, “He provided all the various means in the earth for your sustenance and made such arrangements that everyone should receive something from the circulation of the provision.”
63. That is, “If those whom you have set up as deities can neither create, nor provide sustenance, nor have power over life and death, nor can raise you back to life after death, then what for have you set them up as your deities?”
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