Tafsir for verse: 39:63
لَّهُۥ مَقَالِيدُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِۗ وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلۡخَٰسِرُونَ ٦٣ ﴿63
63To Him belong the keys to the heavens and the earth. As for those who have rejected the verses of Allah, it is they who are the losers.
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Commentary

And when the two realms are the treasures of all that exists; and no one can act in the treasures except the one with the keys; he said - indicating his agency -: ﴿To Him﴾; meaning: alone; ﴿are the keys﴾; one of them is "miklād"; like "mifṭāḥ"; and "miqlīd"; like "qindīl"; and they are the keys; and the strong collective matters; and it is a metaphor for the intensity of control over ﴿the heavens﴾; meaning: all of their quantities; ﴿and the earth﴾; meaning: their kind; their treasures and matters; and their keys that encompass everything in them; so it is not possible for there to be anything in them; nor for anyone to act in anything from them; nor in them; except by His permission; so there is no wonder in saving those who are God-fearing.

And when the estimation is: "So those who believed in Allah and accepted His signs; they are the successful ones"; he added to it his saying - which was necessitated by the context of the warning -: ﴿And those who disbelieved﴾; meaning: they wore what became clear to them of the signs; and denied that all matters are in His hands; ﴿by the signs of Allah﴾; meaning: that there is no apparent besides it; for indeed, there is in existence only His essence - glorified is He - and it is an unseen that cannot be comprehended by the created; and His actions; and they are the most apparent of things; and His attributes; and they are unseen from the perspective of witnessing from another perspective; ﴿Those﴾; the distant and detested; ﴿they are﴾ specifically; ﴿the losers﴾; for they have lost their souls; and everything that is connected to them in terms of benefit; because their disbelief is the ugliest of disbeliefs; in that it is related to the most apparent of things.

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