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Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: (Lord of the two easts and Lord of the two wests)

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Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: (Lord of the two easts and Lord of the two wests)]
[He is] Lord of the two sunrises and Lord of the two sunsets.رَبُّ الْمَشْرِقَيْنِ وَرَبُّ الْمَغْرِبَيْنِ
[Surah al-Rahman: 17] (Lord) is the predicate of a deleted subject,and the implied meaning is: the meaning being: He is the Lord of the two easts and the Lord of the two wests,Meaning: that He is their Owner and their Manager. So nothing rises or sets except by the permission of Allah, and nothing that the east and west encompass belongs to anyone but Allah (Mighty and Majestic). The dual form here is used considering the east of winter and the east of summer; because it differs. The sun rises from the far south in winter, and the opposite in summer. The moon in one month rises from the far south and from the far north.And in another verse Allah the Exalted said:
So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settingsفَلا أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ الْمَشَارِقِ وَالْمَغَارِبِ
[Surah al-Ma'arij: 40] so He used the plural,And in a third verse:
[He is] the Lord of the East and the West; there is no deity except Him, so take Him as Disposer of [your] affairs.رَبُّ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ لا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ فَاتَّخِذْهُ وَكِيلاً
[Surah al-Muzzammil: 9] so how do we reconcile this?We say: The dual is used considering the easts of winter and summer. (The easts) the plural is used considering the east of every day and its west; because the sun rises every day from a place different from where it rose yesterday, and so does the setting. Or it is used considering the rising and setting bodies; because they include the sun, the moon, and the stars, and these are not counted except by Allah (Mighty and Majestic). So the plural is used considering the east of every day and its west; because every day differs from the other in rising and setting. Or it is used considering the rising and setting bodies because they are many: the sun, the moon, and the stars which are not counted except by Allah (Mighty and Majestic).

As for his statement: (Lord of the east and the west) so it is used considering the direction;Because the directions are four: east and west, north and south. The dual is used considering the wests of winter and summer, and the easts of winter and summer. The plural is either used considering the east of the sun every day and its west every day, and this differs. It is not hidden from you now how you find the sun’s rising and setting changing every day, especially when the night and day are equal. You find the difference is a minute or a minute and a half between its setting yesterday and today. Or it is used considering the rising and setting bodies, and the rising and setting bodies are many, not counted except by Allah (Mighty and Majestic). The singular is used considering the direction;Because the sides are four: east and west, north and south.

Allah the Exalted said:
So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?فَبِأَيِّ آلاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ
[Surah al-Rahman: 18] meaning: Which of the blessings of Allah do you deny, O assembly of jinn and mankind? So what is our answer to these interrogatives in all these verses?Our answer: We do not deny any of Your blessings, O our Lord.For this reason, a hadith was reported with weakness in its chain: (That the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when he recited them to the Companions, they were listening to the recitation of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) and did not respond with anything.So he said a word meaning: The jinn are better in response than you.For they were, whenever they recited a verse, they said: We do not deny any of Your blessings, O our Lord) But this hadith is weak; it is only mentioned by the exegetes here.
What are the blessings and favors in the two easts and the two wests?Be careful! Every verse was followed by: (So which of the favors of your Lord will you deny?) It includes great blessings. So what are the blessings included in the difference between the east and the west? The blessings that result from that for the interests of creation: summer and winter, spring and autumn, and other things we do not know. So they are great blessings due to the difference between the east and the west.

Then He, the Exalted, said:
He released the two seas, meeting [side by side];مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ يَلْتَقِيَانِ
[Surah al-Rahman: 19] (Unleashed) meaning: sent, (the two seas) meaning: the salty and the fresh, (meeting) some of them meets with some, the sea is salty,These great seas: the Red Sea, the White Sea, the Atlantic Sea. Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) made these seas salty; because if they were fresh, the air would spoil and stink. But the salt prevents the stench and spoilage. The other fresh sea is the rivers, which come either from abundant rains or from snows that melt and flow on the earth. The important thing is that Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) sent them by His wisdom and power, where Allah (Mighty and Majestic) willed. (Meeting) meaning: some of them meets with some, at the mouth of the river in the sea, so some of them mixes with some. But when He sends them or when they are separate, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says:
Between them is a barrier [so] neither of them transgresses.بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌ لا يَبْغِيَانِ
[Surah al-Rahman: 20] (the barrier) is the dry land, (they do not transgress) meaning: neither of them transgresses against the other. And if Allah the Exalted had willed, He would have unleashed the seas and they would have overflowed onto the land and drowned it. Because the sea now, when you stand on the coast, do you find a wall preventing its flow onto the dry land? You do not find one, even though the earth is spherical. And yet the sea does not flow here or there by the power of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). And if Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) had willed, the waters of the seas would have flowed onto the dry land of the earth and destroyed it.
So the barrier between them is the dry land of the earth. This is the saying of the geographers, and they do not believe in any other saying.

And some of the scholars of knowledge said: Rather, the barrier is a conceptual matter that prevents the salty and the fresh from mixing with each other.

And they said: Indeed, there are now fresh springs in the depths of the seas that gush from the earth, to the extent that divers dive to them and drink from them as the sweetest water. And yet the waters of the seas do not spoil them. So if this is established, there is no harm in us saying the saying of the geographers and the saying of the exegetes. And Allah is Able over all things.
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