Quran Universe
22:70

أَلَمۡ تَعۡلَمۡ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَعۡلَمُ مَا فِي ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِۚ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ فِي كِتَٰبٍۚ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ يَسِيرٞ

Alam taAAlam anna Allaha yaAAlamu ma fee alssamai waalardi inna thalika fee kitabin inna thalika AAala Allahi yaseerun

Do you not know that Allah knows what is in the heaven and earth? Indeed, that is in a Record. Indeed that, for Allah, is easy.

Word by word
  1. أَلَمۡDo not
  2. تَعۡلَمۡyou know
  3. أَنَّthat
  4. ٱللَّهَAllah
  5. يَعۡلَمُknows
  6. مَاwhat
  7. فِي(is) in
  8. ٱلسَّمَآءِthe heaven
  9. وَٱلۡأَرۡضِۚand the earth
  10. إِنَّIndeed
  11. ذَٰلِكَthat
  12. فِي(is) in
  13. كِتَٰبٍۚa Record
  14. إِنَّindeed
  15. ذَٰلِكَthat
  16. عَلَى(is) for
  17. ٱللَّهِAllah
  18. يَسِيرٞeasy
Al-Hajj · 22:70Madinah

Everything in heaven and earth is known and recorded.

And for Allah that is easy

His knowledge
all in heaven and earthknown to Him
written in
a Recordbefore it happens
and it is
easy for Allahno effort
Lost things
forgottenno one noticed
recordednothing escapes Him

Ibn Kathir says not even a speck of dust escapes His knowledge, and He wrote everything before it happened. He cites the Prophet ﷺ: the first thing Allah created was the Pen, and it wrote what will happen until the Day.

You forget passwords, appointments, where you parked. You worry your quiet sacrifices are forgotten too. The verse says every one of them is written, and keeping it all is easy for Him.

My small good deeds slip by unnoticed.

Everything is known and written, and it costs Allah nothing to keep it.

Try this

Do one small kindness today, trusting it is written even if no one sees.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir

Know you not that Allah knows all that is in the heaven and on the earth? Verily, it is (all) in the Book. Verily, that is easy for Allah (70)

Allah tells us how perfect is His knowledge of His creation, and that He encompasses all that is in the heavens and on earth.

Not even the weight of a speck of dust, or less than that or greater escapes His knowledge in the heavens or in the earth. He knows all things even before they happen, and He has written that in His Book, Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuz, as was reported in Sahih Muslim from 'Abdullah bin 'Amr, who said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

إِنَّ اللهَ قَدَّرَ مَقَادِيرَ الْخَلَائِقِ قَبْلَ خَلْقِ السَّمٰوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ بِخَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ، وَكَانَ عَرْشُهُ عَلَى الْمَاءِ

(Allah issued His decrees concerning the measurement and due proportion of the creatures fifty thousand years before He created the heavens and the earth, and His Throne was over the water.) In the Sunan, it was reported from a group of the Companions that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

أَوَّلُ مَا خَلَقَ اللهُ الْقَلَمُ، قَالَ لَهُ: اكْتُبْ، قَالَ: وَ مَا أَكْتُبُ؟ قَالَ: اكْتُبْ مَا هُوَ كَائِنٌ، فَجَرَى الْقَلَمُ بِمَا هُوَ كَائِنٌ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ

(The first thing that Allah created was the Pen. He said to it, "Write!" It said, "What should I write?" He said, "Write what will happen," so the Pen wrote everything that will happen until the Day of Resurrection.) Allah says:

إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ فِي كِتَابٍ ۚ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ

(Verily, it is (all) in the Book. Verily, that is easy for Allah.)