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Surah 40. Ghafir, Ayah 68

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هُوَ ٱلَّذِى يُحْىِۦ وَيُمِيتُ ۖ فَإِذَا قَضَىٰٓ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُۥ كُن فَيَكُونُ
Huwa alla th ee yu h yee wayumeetu fai tha qa da amran fainnam a yaqoolu lahu kun fayakoon u
It is He who grants life and deals death; and when He wills a thing to be, He but says unto it, "Be" - and it is.
  - Mohammad Asad
It is He Who gives you life and causes you to die. It is He Who when He decides to do something, needs only to say: "Be," and it is.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
He is the One Who gives life and causes death. When He decrees a matter, He simply tells it, 'Be!' And it is!
  - Mustafa Khattab
He it is who quickeneth and giveth death. When He ordaineth a thing, He saith unto it only: Be! and it is.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
It is He Who gives Life and Death; and when He decides upon an affair He says to it "Be" and it is. 4445
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The keys of life and death are in Allah's hands. But He is not dependent on time or place or instruments or materials. All that He has to do is to say "Be", and it comes into existence. Cf. xvi. 40, and n. 2066; xxxvi. 82, and n. 4029. Conversely, His Will or Command is sufficient to annihilate Existence into Non-Existence (Life into Death) or determine the limits or conditions of Existence or Non-Existence.

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