Lakhalqu alssamawati waalardi akbaru min khalqi alnnasi walakinna akthara alnnasi la yaAAlamoona
English
Ahmed Ali
The creation of the heavens and the earth is indeed of greater magnitude than the creation of mankind; but most men do not understand.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (assuredly the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of mankind) than the creation of the anti-christ; (but most of mankind) i.e. the jews (know not) the sedition of the anti-christ.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : the following was revealed regarding the deniers of resurrection: assuredly the creation of the heavens and the earth, as an [unprecedented] first act, is greater than the creation of mankind, a second time — which is the restoration [of them after death]; but most people, namely, the disbelievers of mecca, do not know, this, and so they are like the blind, whereas those who know it are like those who have sight.
