Surah Ar-Rahman 55:6
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 6 of 78
وَٱلنَّجْمُ وَٱلشَّجَرُ يَسْجُدَانِ
Translation
the plants and the trees submit to His designs;
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'And the stars and the trees prostrate.' al-Saadi and Ibn Ashur note that every part of creation, the plants that spread low on the earth, the towering trees, the stars above, knows its Lord and bows in submission to Him. The whole cosmos is already in a state of prostration. Ask yourself: I imagine worship as a specifically human, effortful act, something I switch on and off. This verse reveals a universe that is continuously worshipping, everything in its place bowing except the two creatures given a choice: me and the jinn. The grass and the galaxies are already prostrate. The only question left open in all creation is whether I will freely join what everything else does by nature.
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i.
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