Sure 45 Al-Jaathiya — Aya 5
وَٱخْتِلَٰفِ ٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ وَمَآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مِن رِّزْقٍۢ فَأَحْيَا بِهِ ٱلْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا وَتَصْرِيفِ ٱلرِّيَٰحِ ءَايَٰتٌۭ لِّقَوْمٍۢ يَعْقِلُونَ
Und in dem Wechsel von Nacht und Tag und in dem, was Allah vom Himmel an Versorgung niedersendet, wodurch Er die Erde nach ihrem Tod neu belebt, und in dem Wechsel der Winde sind Zeichen für Leute, die Verstand besitzen.
wa-ikh'tilāfi al-layli wal-nahāri wamā anzala l-lahu mina l-samāi min riz'qin fa-aḥyā bihi l-arḍa baʿda mawtihā wataṣrīfi l-riyāḥi āyātun liqawmin yaʿqilūna
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- وَٱخْتِلَـٰفِ wa-ikh'tilāfi And (in the) alternation
- ٱلَّيْلِ al-layli (of) the night
- وَٱلنَّهَارِ wal-nahāri and the day
- وَمَآ wamā and what
- أَنزَلَ anzala Allah sends down
- ٱللَّهُ l-lahu Allah sends down
- مِنَ mina from
- ٱلسَّمَآءِ l-samāi the sky
- مِن min of
- رِّزْقٍۢ riz'qin (the) provision
- فَأَحْيَا fa-aḥyā and gives life
- بِهِ bihi thereby
- ٱلْأَرْضَ l-arḍa (to) the earth
- بَعْدَ baʿda after
- مَوْتِهَا mawtihā its death
- وَتَصْرِيفِ wataṣrīfi and (in) directing
- ٱلرِّيَـٰحِ l-riyāḥi (the) winds
- ءَايَـٰتٌۭ āyātun (are) Signs
- لِّقَوْمٍۢ liqawmin for a people
- يَعْقِلُونَ yaʿqilūna who reason
Tafsir · Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Which was revealed in Makkah
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
A Directive to contemplate over Allah's Ayat
Allah directs His servants to contemplate His favors and gifts, as well as His great power that is demonstrated by His creating the heavens and the earth and the various types and categories of creatures in them. There are the angels, Jinns, humans, animals, birds, beasts, carnivores, insects and various kinds of sea creatures. The night and day alternate, each follows the other in succession, never ceasing to come, as decreed. One brings darkness and one brings light. Allah the Exalted also sends down the rain from the clouds when it is most needed. He is calling the rain, `provision', because it is the resource that produces various provisions,
(and revives therewith the earth after its death,) after it was dry and had no vegetation or life of any kind. Allah said next,
(and in the turning about of the winds,) sometimes towards the south and sometimes towards the north. Some are easterly winds and some are westerly winds, some bringing sea breezes and some blow from the land, some coming at night and some by day. Some winds bring rain, some cause pollination and some winds just revive the soul, while some others bear no benefit. Allah said first.
(are signs for the believers), then
(who have faith with certainty), then
(who understand), thus ascending from one honorable stage to what is more honorable and higher in grade. These Ayat are similar to an Ayah in Surat Al-Baqarah
(Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, and the ships which sail through the sea with that which is of use to mankind, and the water which Allah sends down from the sky and makes the earth alive therewith after its death, and the moving creatures of all kinds that He has spread therein, and in the veering of winds and clouds which are held between the sky and the earth, are indeed signs for people of understanding.) (2:164)