Tazkirul Quran, Qur’an 67:19–21
The Kingdom (Al-Mulk)
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
English text; the translator is not named in the archive’s data.
Translation
(19) Do they not see the birds above them spreading and closing their wings? None save the Merciful sustains them. Surely, He observes all things. (20) Who is there to defend you like an army, besides the Lord of Mercy? Those who deny the truth are in deception. (21) Who can provide for you, if He withholds His provision? Yet they obstinately persist in rebellion and avoidance of the truth.
Commentary
(a) Birds flying in the air, the emergence of man’s sustenance from the soil and similar events are most wonderful. If one gives serious consideration to such things, one will become caught up in the realisation of God. But man is so forgetful that he indulges in arrogance in a world in which the natural phenomena visible all around him ought to teach him the lesson of obedience to God.