ONE AYAT A DAY
اَللّٰهُ الَّذِيْ خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمٰوٰتٍ وَّمِنَ الْاَرْضِ مِثْلَهُنَّۗ يَتَنَزَّلُ الْاَمْرُ بَيْنَهُنَّ لِتَعْلَمُوْٓا اَنَّ اللّٰهَ عَلٰى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيْرٌ ەۙ وَّاَنَّ اللّٰهَ قَدْ اَحَاطَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عِلْمًا ࣖ
Allāhul-lażī khalaqa sab‘a samāwātiw wa minal-arḍi miṡlahunn(a), yatanazzalul-amru bainahunna lita‘lamū annallāha ‘alā kulli syai'in qadīr(un), wa annallāha qad aḥāṭa bikulli syai'in ‘ilmā(n).
It is Allāh who has created seven heavens and of the earth, the like of them. [His] command descends among them so you may know that Allāh is over all things competent and that Allāh has encompassed all things in knowledge.
Allah's Perfect Power Allah the Exalted asserts His perfect power and infinite greatness, so that the great religion that He has legislated is honored and implemented, اللَّهُ الَّذِى خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَـوَتٍ (It is Allah Who has created seven heavens) Allah said in similar Ayat, like what Prophet Nuh said to his people, أَلَمْ تَرَوْاْ كَيْفَ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ سَبْعَ سَمَـوَتٍ طِبَاقاً (See you not how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another) (71:15), and, تُسَبِّحُ لَهُ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتُ ٱلسَّبْعُ وَٱلْأَرْضُ وَمَن فِيهِنَّ (The seven heavens and the earth and all that is therein, glorify him.) (17:44) Allah's statement, وَمِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ مِثْلَهُنَّ (and of the earth the like thereof.) means, He created seven earths. In the Two Sahihs, there is a Hadith that states, «مَنْ ظَلَمَ قِيدَ شِبْرٍ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ طُوِّقَهُ مِنْ سَبْعِ أَرَضِين» (Whoever usurps the land of somebody unjustly, even if it was a mere hand span, then his neck will be encircled with it down to the seven earths.) And in Sahih Al-Bukhari the wording is: «خُسِفَ بِهِ إِلَى سَبْعِ أَرَضِين» (...he will sink down to the seven earths.) In the beginning of my book, Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah, I mentioned the various narrations for this Hadith when I narrated the story of the creation of the earth. All the thanks and praise is due to Allah. Those who explained this Hadith to mean the seven continents have brou…