15:86

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ ٱلۡخَلَّـٰقُ ٱلۡعَلِيمُ

Inna rabbaka huwa alkhallaqu alAAaleemu

Indeed, your Lord - He is the Knowing Creator.

Word by word
  1. إِنَّIndeed
  2. رَبَّكَyour Lord
  3. هُوَHe
  4. ٱلۡخَلَّـٰقُ(is) the Creator
  5. ٱلۡعَلِيمُthe All-Knower
Al-Hijr · 15:86Makkah

The One who made everything knows every scattered piece.

Your Lord, the Knowing Creator


Who your Lord is
the Creatormakes again and again
the Knowingknows what scattered
so
the Houris easy for Him
Can it be undone
gone is gonescattered, lost
known and gatherednothing escapes Him

Ibn Kathir calls this a confirmation of the Day of Resurrection. He knows what has been dispersed from people's bodies and scattered throughout the earth. He cites 36:81: is not He who created the heavens able to create the like of them?

You forgave the person in the last verse, but it still feels like the wrong will just disappear. Your Lord made the heavens and knows every scattered thing. Nothing you let go of is lost to Him.

Once something is gone or forgotten, it is gone for good.

The Creator who knows every scattered piece can bring it all back and set it right.

Try this

Before sleeping, say ya Khallaq, ya Alim, and hand one worry over to Him.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (shared passage from 15:85)

And We did not create the heavens and the earth and all that is between them except with the truth, and the Hour is surely coming, so overlook their faults with gracious forgiveness (85)Verily, your Lord is the Knowing Creator (86)

The World has been created for some Purpose, then the Hour will come

Allah says,

وَمَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ ۗ وَإِنَّ السَّاعَةَ لَآتِيَةٌ

(And We did not create the heavens and the earth and all that is between them except with the truth, and the Hour is surely coming), i.e., with justice to -

لِيَجْزِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسَاءُوا بِمَا عَمِلُوا

(requite those who do evil with that which they have done)[53:31] Allah says,

وَمَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاءَ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا بَاطِلًا ۚ ذَٰلِكَ ظَنُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا ۚ فَوَيْلٌ لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنَ النَّارِ

(And We did not create the heaven and the earth, and all that is between them without purpose! That is what those who disbelieve think! Then let those who disbelieve be warned of the Fire!)(38:27)

أَفَحَسِبْتُمْ أَنَّمَا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ عَبَثًا وَأَنَّكُمْ إِلَيْنَا لَا تُرْجَعُونَ - فَتَعَالَى اللَّهُ الْمَلِكُ الْحَقُّ ۖ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ رَبُّ الْعَرْشِ الْكَرِيمِ

("Did you think that We created you in play, and that you would not be brought back to Us?" So exalted be Allah, the Truth, the King, none has the right to be worshipped but He, the Lord of the Honored Throne!)(23:115-116). Then Allah informed His Prophet ﷺ about the Hour, and that it will be the faults of the idolators when they insult him and reject the Message that he brings to them. This is like the Ayah,

فَاصْفَحْ عَنْهُمْ وَقُلْ سَلَامٌ ۚ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ

(So turn away from them, and say: "Salam (Peace!)." But they will come to know)(43:89). Mujahid, Qatadah and others said: "This was before fighting was prescribed". It is as they said, because this Surah was revealed in Makkah and fighting was prescribed after the Hijrah.

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ الْخَلَّاقُ الْعَلِيمُ

(Verily, your Lord is the Knowing Creator)(15:86). This is a confirmation of the Day of Resurrection and that Allah, may He be exalted, is able to bring the Hour to pass. He is the Creator and nothing is beyond Him. He is the Knowing, Who knows what has been dispersed from people's bodies and scattered throughout the regions of the earth, as He says:

أَوَلَيْسَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ بِقَادِرٍ عَلَىٰ أَن يَخْلُقَ مِثْلَهُم ۚ بَلَىٰ وَهُوَ الْخَلَّاقُ الْعَلِيمُ - إِنَّمَا أَمْرُهُ إِذَا أَرَادَ شَيْئًا أَن يَقُولَ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ - فَسُبْحَانَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ مَلَكُوتُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ

(Is not He, Who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them Yes, indeed! He is the Knowing, Creator. Verily, His command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it, "Be!" - and it is! So glorified and exalted is He above all that they associate with Him, and in whose Hands is the dominion of all things, and to Him you shall return.)(36:81-83).