لَّهُۥ مَقَالِيدُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۗ وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْخَٰسِرُونَ
Lahoo maqaaleedus sa maawaati wal ard; wallazeena kafaroo bi ayaatil laahi ulaaa'ika humul khaasiroon
To Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth. And they who disbelieve in the verses of Allah - it is those who are the losers.
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True success & loss
39:63Ayah 175
4 ayahs in Az-Zumar are strongly about true success. This is one of them.
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To Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth in other words the keys to their storehouses of rain and vegetation and other things. And those who disbelieve in the signs of God such as the Qur’ān — those they are the losers ūlā’ika humu’l-khāsirūna is semantically connected to His words wa-yunajjī’Llāhu’lladhīna ittaqaw ‘and God will deliver those who guarded themselves …’ to the end of that statement; the intervening statements are parentheticals.
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