Surah Ya-Sin 36:83
سُورَةُ يسٓ · Meccan · Verse 83 of 83
فَسُبْحَٰنَ ٱلَّذِى بِيَدِهِۦ مَلَكُوتُ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ
Translation
So glory be to Him in whose Hand lies control over all things. It is to Him that you will all be brought back.’
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'So glory to the One in whose hand is the dominion of all things, and to Him you will be returned.' Ibn Ashur and al-Biqa'i note the Surah called 'the Heart of the Qur'an' closes exactly where Surah al-Mulk opened, all dominion in His hand, and it ends on the single word that everything ends on: return. The whole journey of the Surah lands here: He owns all, and to Him we go back. Ask yourself: everything I chase, defend, and fear is enclosed in a dominion already held in His hand, and my own path, however winding, has one destination: back to Him. If the last word of 'the heart of the Qur'an' is 'return', then the truest question about any day of my life is simple, is this bringing me closer to the One I am, in the end, returning to?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i, al-Saadi.
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