Surah Yaseen 36:81 — Meaning, Translation & Reflection

أَوَلَيْسَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ بِقَٰدِرٍ عَلَىٰٓ أَن يَخْلُقَ مِثْلَهُم ۚ بَلَىٰ وَهُوَ ٱلْخَلَّٰقُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ

English: Is He who created the heavens and earth not able to create the likes of these people? Of course He is! He is the All Knowing Creator:

Bengali: যিনি নভোমন্ডল ও ভূমন্ডল সৃষ্টি করেছেন, তিনিই কি তাদের অনুরূপ সৃষ্টি করতে সক্ষম নন? হ্যাঁ তিনি মহাস্রষ্টা, সর্বজ্ঞ।

Meaning & Reflection

'Is not the One who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them? Yes indeed — He is the Supreme Creator, the All-Knowing.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the a-fortiori force: the One who built the vast heavens and earth can obviously remake the small matter of a human being — the greater achievement guarantees the lesser. And the verse answers its own question emphatically: 'Yes indeed.' Ask yourself: I gaze up at the scale of the cosmos and feel my own smallness as insignificance — as if something so vast could not be bothered with re-creating tiny me. This verse turns that exact scale into reassurance: the One who made *all that* is more than able to remake me. Does the enormity of creation shrink me into despair, or point me toward a Creator for whom my renewal is easy?

Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.

Reflect with the Five Lenses

Maani's framework for Tadabbur (heart-centred reflection) on Surah Yaseen 36:81:

• Wording. Look closely at the specific words and structure. Which word stands out, and why might Allah have chosen it here?
• Quranic Worlds. Place the verse in its context — what is happening around it, and what world does it open up?
• Personal Experience. Ask not just what this means, but what it means TO me and FOR me, right now in my life.
• Connections. How does this verse connect to other verses, to the Sunnah, or to themes across the Quran?
• General Lessons. What timeless lesson or action point can I carry away and live by?