Tazkirul Quran, Qur’an 50:16–18
Qaf (Qaf)
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
English text; the translator is not named in the archive’s data.
Translation
(16) We created man—We know the promptings of his soul, and are closer to him than his jugular vein— (17) and the two recording angels are recording, sitting on the right and the left: (18) each word he utters shall be noted down by a vigilant guardian.
Commentary
(b) The study of this world shows that there is an unerring system of ‘recording’ in operation here. Man’s thoughts are impressed on the membrane of his brain. Every utterance a man makes is permanently preserved in the shape of sound waves in the air. Man’s actions are preserved in the external world by means of heat waves in such a way that they can be repeated at any time. All these are known facts of today, and these known facts are what make the Quran’s claim credible that man’s intentions, his utterances and his actions, are all in the knowledge of his Creator. All affairs of all human beings are entered in the registers of the angels.