Maariful Quran - Mufti Shafi Usmani RA - Vol - 5 - Page

the moon and the stars which have been made subservient by His command,
it was said in the concluding sentence of verse 12: 3!
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Given here is the hint that these things are of course subservient to the
command of Allah, an open fact which does not need a lot of thinking.
Anyone having some reason in him would understand, because there
was obviously some human input in the growth of vegetation and trees,
but, in this case, there is none.
Before we move to the next verse, let us clarify the first sentence of
verse 12: ;$JTJ $1 p$L (And He has subjugated for you the day and the
night). Here, 'subjugating the day and the night' means that Allah made
them subservient to His command in order that they can serve man, pursuant
to which the night brings comfort to him and the day smooths out
the avenues of his work. 'Subjugating them' never means that the day
and the night start alternating under human command.
Then, in verse 13, after mentioning all other varied produce of the
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land, it was said: dry&