Tafseer of Explained in detail · Fussilat · 41:54
Unquestionably, they are in doubt about the meeting with their Lord. Unquestionably He is, of all things, encompassing.
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The explanation of the saying of the Exalted: أَلا إِنَّهُمْ فِي مِرْيَةٍ مِنْ لِقَاءِ رَبِّهِمْ أَلا إِنَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ مُحِيطٌ (41:54) — ("Indeed, they are in doubt about the meeting with their Lord. Indeed, He encompasses all things.")
The Exalted, whose praise is exalted, says: indeed, these who deny the signs of Allah are in doubt about the meeting with their Lord; He means that they are in doubt about the resurrection after death and about their return to their Lord.
As Muḥammad related to us, he said: Aḥmad related to us, he said: Asbāṭ related to us, on the authority of al-Suddī: أَلا إِنَّهُمْ فِي مِرْيَةٍ مِنْ لِقَاءِ رَبِّهِمْ ("Indeed, they are in doubt about the meeting with their Lord") — He says: in doubt.
And His saying: أَلا إِنَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ مُحِيطٌ ("Indeed, He encompasses all things") — the Exalted, whose praise is exalted, says: indeed, Allah encompasses all the things that He has created, with knowledge of the whole of them and with power over them; no knowledge of any thing of them that He wills escapes Him such that it would elude Him, but rather He is capable of it and knows the place of it.
End of the explanation of Surah Fuṣṣilat.
