Al-Ankaboot (The Spider)

63. “And if you ask them: ‘Who sends down water from the heaven and gives life with it unto the earth after its death?’ They will certainly say: ‘Allah!’ Say: ‘All praise is due to Allah.’ But most of them do not ponder.”

One of the great bounties for which we must be thankful, is the light of Faith and natural disposition. Knowing of Allah is natural, and if the dust of sin and deviation is removed from the nature of deviated ones, their clear and manifest confessions will be found out.

In this verse, where the words are about Unity of Lordship and that the descent of the main origin of provisions is from the side of Allah, it says:

“And if you ask them: ‘Who sends down water from the heaven and gives life with it unto the earth after its death?’ They will certainly say: ‘Allah!’…”

This is the inner belief of idolaters that they even did not refuse to express it by their tongue, because they both knew the Creator as Allah, and introduced Allah as the Lord and also the administrator of the whole world.

Then, the verse continues saying:

“…Say: ‘All praise is due to Allah.’…”

Praise is for the One from Whose side all bounties come, because when water, which is the main source of life and by which all living creatures are alive, is from His side, it is clear that other provisions are from His side, too.

Therefore praise must also belong to Him alone, and other objects of worship have no share in it.

We must thank Allah, for our logic is so alive and strong that nobody is able to nullify it.

And since the polytheists’ sayings, from one side, and their speech and actions, from other side, contradicted with each other, at the end of the verse the Qur’an adds:

“…But most of them do not ponder.”

Else, how is it possible that a wise and thoughtful person speaks so much scattered and contrarily? From one side, he knows Allah (s.w.t.) as the creator, the giver of sustenance, and administrator of the world, and, on the other side, he falls in prostration before some idols that have no role in his fate.

From one side, they believe in the Unity of Creator and Unity of Lordship, but, on the other side, they practically worship other than Allah.

It is interesting that the Holy Qur’an does not say that they do not have mind and wisdom, but it says:

“…(they) do not ponder”,

which means they have intellect while they do not use it.