Commentary
And when the maker of a thing may not be a king, and the king's dominion is not complete except with knowledge of all that is in his kingdom and the ability over it, and their denial of resurrection is a denial that he could be a king, this is confirmed by the repetition of the news about it, for he said: ﴿To Him﴾ meaning alone ﴿belongs the kingdom of the heavens﴾ and he gathered for the necessity of the position ﴿and the earth﴾, he specified for the obscurity of its multiplicity to them while intending the genus. And it indicated the permanence of his kingdom and his encompassing it by saying, adding to what he has decreed: So from Allah is the beginning, expressing with the greatest name that encompasses so that the specifics are not thought of in matters that have preceded: ﴿And to Allah﴾ meaning the king who has no equal, alone ﴿are returned﴾ in every consideration with utmost ease ﴿the matters﴾ meaning all of them, sensibly regarding resurrection and meaning regarding creation and annihilation. And this creation and annihilation is indicated by the most wondrous of matters and the most beautiful of them, for he said:
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