The Kingdom – A Commentary on Chapter 67: Surat Al-Mulk

Introduction

This Meccan chapter (sûrah) clearly illustrates the totality of lordship. Creation, while comprising many different seen and unseen systems each moving towards the fulfillment of its own potential, is unified. These systems are interlinked and the controller of them is the One-and-Only Creator, Who is beyond time and space and yet encompasses it. The bounty and mercy of existence have their deeper meaning in His unbounded bounty and mercy; by His mercy all will pass on to the next realm.

 

 


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