Similarly, the Almighty says, “He is the One who is God in the heaven and God on the earth” (43:84). He did not simply say “in the heaven” and then break off, as He does in another verse: “Do you feel secure from the One who is in the heaven,” and then breaks off to say, “that He may cause the earth to swallow you” (67:16). Instead, He joins the two clauses in a single statement: “He is the One who is God in the heaven and God on the earth,” meaning He is the God of the inhabitants of heaven and the God of the inhabitants of earth. This turn of phrase is well attested in Arabic: one may say, “So-and-so is an emir in Khurasan and an emir in…"