Tafseer Ibn Kathir of AL 'ANKABUUT [61]

61. And if you were to ask them: ”Who has created the heavens and the earth and subjected the sun and the moon'' They will surely reply: ”Allah.'' How then are they deviating 62. Allah expands the provision for whom He wills of His servants, and straitens it for whom (He wills). Verily, Allah is the All-Knower of everything. 63. And if you were to ask them: ”Who sends down water from the sky, and gives life therewith to the earth after its death'' They will surely reply: ”Allah.'' Say: ”All the praises and thanks be to Allah!'' Nay, most of them have no sense.   Allah states that there is no God but He. The idolators who worshipped others besides Him recognized that He was the sole creator of the heavens and earth, the sun and the moon, alternating the night and day. They acknowledged that He was the Creator Who provided for His servants and decreed how long they should live. He made them and their provision different, so that some were rich and some were poor, and He knew best what was suitable for each of them, who deserved to be rich and who deserved to be poor. So, Allah stated that He has alone created everything, and that He alone is controlling them -- if this is how it is, then why worship anyone else Why put one's trust in anyone else Since dominion is His Alone, then let worship be for Him Alone. Allah often establishes His divinity by referring to their acknowledgement of His Unique Lordship, because the idolators used to acknowledge His Lordship, as they said in their Talbiyah (during Hajj and `Umrah: ”At Your service, You have no partner, except the partner that You have, and You possess him and whatever he has.''