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The Powerful
Among His Signs is that you see Earth laid bare and then,
when We send down water on it, it quivers and swells. He
Who gives it life is He Who gives life to the dead. Certainly
He has power over all things. (Surah Fussilat, 41:39)

As Allah informs us in many verses, every event is known to
Him, for He wills it into existence just by saying: “Be.” He knows
when each leaf falls, when each woman or female animal becomes
pregnant, and whatever happens at any location in the universe. If
He wills, He can replace an unbelieving society with a new one. He
grants or withdraws enormous possessions to whomever He wills,
punishes an unbelieving society at a time and by a method of His
choice, and makes the ground infertile or dry and devoid of life.
Nothing that exists can prevent Him from doing what He wills, for
His power is infinite, as revealed in the following verses:
Have they not traveled in the land and seen the final fate of
those before them? They were far greater than them in
strength. Allah cannot be withstood in any way, either in
the heavens or on Earth. He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful.
(Surah Fatir, 35:44)
No! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and Wests that We have
the power to replace them with something better than
them. We will not be outstripped. (Surat al- Ma‘arij, 70:40-
41)
Just as He punishes an unbelieving nation, He has the power to
grant mercy to His sincere servants. In the Qur’an, we find many ex-

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