Allah Changes His Tone Upon A Question! ‼️

Allah Changes His Tone Upon A Question!

In Surat Ar-Ra'd, Allah begins the surah by talking about his ability to create:

He talks about the mountains and the lakes and the skies and everything that he's made. Then Allah says:

If you're going to be amazed, you know what you need to be amazed by? What these people are saying:

If we become dust, is Allah going to create us again from dust? Are you serious?

The Tone Shifts

Now, the tone of Allah changes. Allah is describing the mountains and the seas and the skies to show he's the powerful. Then some guy comes and he says, well, you can't really do anything — you can't bring us back from dust. Allah then says:

He knows the seen and the unseen. Al-Kabir — the Greatest. Al-Muta'al — the Highest. He's powerful and he has the highest status. Don't mess with him. Don't think he can't do something.

Now he's going to emphasize his power, his authority. Who do you think you are? You think I can't make the dust come back to life?

The Thunder and the Lightning

Then Allah starts to talk about the thunder and the lightning — showing you can look at Allah's creation. You see the sky, the sun. You see beauty, you see order, you see strength, you see power, you see might. Great. But there are some parts of Allah's creation that show you his authority — that show you need to be scared. His power is not just in seeing a nice plant bloom into a rose. No, his power can also destroy a full town with one blast. So he reminds you about that creation of his as well.

He shows you lightning — why? To make you scared. To strike fear into your heart. And he shows you the heavy clouds.

And the thunder glorifies Allah with his praise, and the angels praise Allah in fear. What's he saying? You better be scared. If you're going to say that I can't bring you back to life, you better be scared — because what's coming to you is not going to be pleasant.

The Culmination — All of Creation Prostrates

And as he asserts his authority and his dominance and his severity — that he is the King, that he is the Powerful, that he is the Highest — then Allah culminates all of this:

To Allah does sujood — prostrates — everybody in the heavens and the earth. Taw'an wa karhan — whether they like it or whether they don't. And their shadows — look how the shadow starts, and look how it wanes. Even the shadow is doing sujood to Allah.

Now tell me something — are there people in this world who don't do sujood to Allah? They don't prostrate to Allah? So how can you say everybody is prostrating to Allah?