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Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 1–2God created angels to carry messages and execute orders.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 3–4Man is in need of innumerable things to sustain his life, for example, light, water, air, food, minerals, etc.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 5–7On the face of it, the facts of life (and hereafter), though conveyed to us by God through His prophets, appear to be figments of human imagination, because they are not immediately encountered.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verse 8Almighty God has blessed every man with the capability to think and distinguish between truth and untruth.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 9–10The present world gives us an introduction to the Hereafter.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verse 11God first created man from the elements of the earth.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 12–14There is a large store of water on the earth—salt water in the oceans and seas, and fresh water in rivers, lakes and springs.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 15–18Man is an extremely vulnerable creation.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 19–26It is a fact that the expectations one has of light are not applicable to darkness.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 27–28The same rain cycle causes rain everywhere in the world but it causes different types of things to grow—useful plants as well as wild bushes.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 29–31The man of knowledge is one who experiences a deep realization of God (ma‘rifah) and one who attains this state, makes the Book of God, a guide in his thinking processes; he becomes a pious subject of God.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 32–35Jacob was Abraham’s grandson.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 36–37Those who deny the Truth in this world will admit the Truth in the Hereafter.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 38–39In this verse, being given ‘the earth to inherit’ (khalifah) means that ‘after the decline of the previous nations, a new nation was settled on the earth in their place.’Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 40–41The creation of the universe, with its unlimited space and the innumerable astronomical bodies suspended in it, is an awe-inspiring phenomenon.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verses 42–44When the Arab people used to hear that the Jews and other people had flouted and disobeyed their prophets, they used to say enthusiastically that if any prophet appeared among them, they would accept him wholeheartedly and obey him.Chapter 35, The Creator (Fatir) · verse 45Man has been given freedom of action in the world, but he misuses it.