سُوْرَةُ الْحَجِّ
Surah Al-Hajj (22) — Ayah 70
أَلَمْ تَعْلَمْ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ مَا فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۗ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ فِى كِتَـٰبٍ ۚ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ ﴿70﴾
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Know you not that Allâh knows all that is in the heaven and on the earth? Verily, it is (all) in the Book (Al-Lauh-al-Mahfûz). Verily that is easy for Allâh.
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
أَلَمْ
alam
Do not
تَعْلَمْ
taʿlam
you know
أَنَّ
anna
that
ٱللَّهَ
l-laha
Allah
يَعْلَمُ
yaʿlamu
knows
مَا
mā
what
فِى
fī
(is) in
ٱلسَّمَآءِ
l-samāi
the heaven
وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۗ
wal-arḍi
and the earth
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
ذَٰلِكَ
dhālika
that
فِى
fī
(is) in
كِتَـٰبٍ ۚ
kitābin
a Record
إِنَّ
inna
indeed
ذَٰلِكَ
dhālika
that
عَلَى
ʿalā
(is) for
ٱللَّهِ
l-lahi
Allah
يَسِيرٌۭ
yasīrun
easy
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan — Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan is a well-known Quran commentary by Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf, a renowned Salafi (Ahl al-Hadith) scholar from Pakistan. This tafsir explains the meanings of the Quran in accordance with the methodology of the Salaf (early righteous generations), relying on authentic sources and straightforward language. Due to its reliability and adherence to sound Islamic scholarship, the Saudi government publishes and distributes this tafsir among the Hujjaj (pilgrims) visiting the Haramain. The tafsir is originally written in Urdu, translated to English by tohed.com.
70. 1. In this, Allah has mentioned His perfect knowledge and His encompassing of the creation. That is, whatever His creation was going to do, He already had knowledge of it; He knew them. Thus, He wrote these matters beforehand with His knowledge. And even if this matter seems very difficult to people, it is absolutely easy for Allah. This is the very issue of Qadar (divine decree), and it is necessary to have faith in it, as it has been stated in the hadith in this way: "Allah, fifty thousand years before the creation of the heavens and the earth, when His Throne was upon the water, wrote the destinies of the creation." (Sahih Muslim) And in a narration from the Sunan: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The first thing Allah created was the Pen, and said to it, 'Write.' It said, 'What should I write?' Allah said, 'Write everything that is going to happen.' So it wrote everything that was going to happen until the Day of Resurrection by Allah's command." (Abu Dawood, Kitab al-Sunnah)
