Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “To Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and He is the Most High, the Magnificent.”
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The Shaykh :[Al-Baqarah 2:255] The pronoun “He” refers to Allah, and you know that “He” is a predicate placed before the subject, and the subject is in His saying: [Al-Baqarah 2:116] because “what” here is a relative pronoun, and the implied meaning is “To Him belongs that which is in the heavens.” The rule among rhetoricians is that placing before what is normally placed after implies restriction and exclusivity. So His saying: [Al-Baqarah 2:116] means it is not for anyone other than Him; everything in the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds.