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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

Hud 11:4

Word by word

إِلَى ٱللَّهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ ۖ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

To Allāh is your return, and He is over all things competent."

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Ma'arif al-Qur'an

Mufti Muhammad Shafi

In the fifth verse, the theme has been emphasized further. Let man do what he elects to. Let him live the way he fancies. But, ultimately, once dead, man has to return to Him and He is powerful over everything. It is not at all difficult for Him to have each particle man is made of reassembled after he is dead and becomes dust and see to it that there rises the man he was, all over again.

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