Which Surah and Juz is Quran 29:61 from?

This ayah is from Surah Al-Ankaboot (The Spider), the 29th surah of the Quran. It appears in Juz 21.

Are there hadiths related to Quran 29:61?

Yes — there are 5 hadiths related to this ayah from Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abu Dawud, Sahih al-Bukhari.

What tafsir is available for Quran 29:61?

Commentary on this ayah is available from Ibn Kathir, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Abbas, Al-Jalalayn — classical scholars of Quranic exegesis.

What topics does Quran 29:61 relate to?

This ayah connects to these Quranic topics: Allah, Tawhid, Creation, Divine Sovereignty, Idolatry.

Ayah 60

وَكَأَيِّن مِّن دَآبَّةٍۢ لَّا تَحْمِلُ رِزْقَهَا ...

29:61Al-Ankaboot

Q: What does Quran 29:61 mean?

Quran 29:61 (Surah Al-Ankaboot, Ayah 61) translates to: "If you asked them, "Who created the heavens and earth and subjected the sun and the moon?" they would surely say, "Allah." Then how are they deluded?"

Ayah 62

ٱللَّهُ يَبْسُطُ ٱلرِّزْقَ لِمَن يَشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَ...

وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُم مَّنْ خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَسَخَّرَ ٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ لَيَقُولُنَّ ٱللَّهُ ۖ فَأَنَّىٰ يُؤْفَكُونَ

Wa la'in sa altahum man khalaqas samaawaati wal arda wa sakhkharash shamsa wal qamara la yaqoolunnal laahu fa ann yu'fakoon

If you asked them, "Who created the heavens and earth and subjected the sun and the moon?" they would surely say, "Allah." Then how are they deluded?

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29:61Ayah 169

5 ayahs in Al-Ankaboot are strongly about signs in creation. This is one of them.

← Previous on Signs in creation29:60And how many a creature carries not its [own] provision. Allah provides for it and for you. And He is the Hearing, the Knowing.Next on Signs in creation →29:63And if you asked them, "Who sends down rain from the sky and gives life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness?" they would surely say " Allah." Say,

Tafsir

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And if wa-la-in the lām is for oaths you were to ask them namely the disbelievers ‘Who created the heavens and the earth and disposed the sun and the moon?’ They would assuredly say ‘God.’ So how then are they turned away? from affirming His Oneness after affirming that God created them.

Verily your people would constantly question about this and that till they would say: Well, it is Allah Who created the creation, but who created Allah?

Sunan Abu Dawud #4723Abu Hurairah reported to the Messenger of Allah( may peace be upon him) as sayings:Hasan Sahih

People will continue to ask one another(questions) till this is pronounced: Allah created all things, but who created Allah ? Whoever comes across anything of that, he should say: I believe in Allah.

Sahih al-Bukhari #7019Narrated Anas bin Malik:Sahih

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "People will not stop asking questions till they say, 'This is Allah, the Creator of everything, then who created Allah?' "

Sahih Muslim #254It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) observed:Sahih

People will constantly ask you questions pertaining to knowledge till they would say: Allah created us, but who created Allah? he (the narrator) says: he (Abu Huraira) was (at the time of narrating this hadith) catching hold of the hand of a man and he said: Allah and the Messenger told the truth. Two persons have already put me this question, and this is the third one, or he said: One man has put me this question and he is the second one.

Sahih Muslim #257Yazid b. al-Asamm said:Sahih

I heard Abu Huraira saying that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) observed: people will certainly ask you about everything till they will propound: Allah created every thing, but who created Allah?