God’s encompassment of things in existence.

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You are the Beginning and You are the End. The sun and its proof of its existence.

In the third verse after mentioning those who opposed God’s apostles and fought against them especially the two most famous one being the ancient people of Thamud and the other the Pharaoh from a not very distant past, says, “The unbelievers have always denied the words and the signs of truth...” The word “Fi” gives a subtlety to the words meaning that the unbelievers are always immersed in the ocean of denial.

 The unbelievers mentioned here are those that denied the Oneness of God in the days of the Messenger. They denied the Messengership of the Holy Prophet also and did not believe in the Judgment Day (Qiyamah). There is a possibility that the verse includes all manner of disbelief and denial because the people of Thamud and the pharaoh did the same. The negative style can be the second proof of this issue that is used to stress importance of something. The third verse says, “While God is encompassing over them”. The words “over them” mean that they are encircled from all sides and God encompasses them from all angles.

The question is what does it mean by “encompassment by God”? There is a debate about this among the commentators. Some say that it means God knowledge encompasses them. Some other say, it means the power of God that encompasses them or that each on of them is under God’s control and they cannot escape it or his punishment. Yet some others have taken it to mean the encompassment by knowledge and control but the meaning of this verse is far greater than these meanings and it includes His existence also for He and His control exist before all creations came into existence. But this encompassment by existence is not limited to any time or space or place for He is an entity that is existence by itself and all others exist because of Him. This is the important point that is the cause of the proof of truths and we will discuss this in details but later.

 

You are the Beginning and You are the End. The sun and its proof of its existence.
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