and the earth, and was not at a loss in creating them, is able to bring the dead to life? Yes indeed, He has power over all things.”

[Ibn Taymiyyah’s commentary]

It is firmly established among the self-evident truths of reason that creating the heavens and the earth is greater than creating human beings. If the evidence they contain of their Creator’s knowledge, power, and wisdom overwhelms the mind, does this not demonstrate that He is able to bring the dead to life without being at a loss, just as He was not at a loss in the first creation—by reasoning that applies all the more strongly to the latter?

Perhaps this ignorant man did not understand this verse and supposed that His words:

“and was not at a loss in creating them”

refer to fatigue—that is, weariness and exhaustion—and that the meaning is: “If We did not become tired in the first creation, how could We become tired in the second?” If this is what he understood from the verse, as do ignorant common people who know neither the Arabic language nor the interpretation of the Quran and cannot distinguish being at a loss from being fatigued, then his error stems from his ignorance of both reason and revelation.

These proponents of innovation are ignorant of the true nature of what the Messenger brought and turn away from it. Then, on the basis of their ignorance, they judge that it contains no proofs of