Blessed is He in whose hand is sovereignty
تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ الْمُلْكُ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيَاةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُم
"Blessed is He in whose hand is sovereignty, and He is over all things competent — He who created death and life to test you…"
Context
The opening of the sūrah the Prophet ﷺ said intercedes for its reciter until he is forgiven. Its night-recitation is a classical sunnah.
What the classical scholars said.
Passages from our audiobook library that reference this verse, its theme, or its vocabulary.
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"and His name drives away Satan, allowing blessings to prevail without opposition. Nothing not associated with God has its blessing removed, for the Lord alone is truly blessed and all blessings belong to Him. Anything attributed to Him is blessed. His speech is blessed, His messenger is blessed, His servant who benefits His creation is blessed, His sacred house is blessed, and His chosen land, referred to as the Levant, is a land of blessing."
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"Know that people are of two kinds: One who is blessed, and one who is tested by what his Lord has decreed upon him. Thus, the one who is blessed is never free from the taint and disturbance in what he has been blessed with, for he is at the height of his enjoyment when fate arrives with what spoils it, through various calamities and afflictions, such as diseases, pains, and misfortunes in self, wealth, family, and children, causing him to be troubled by it, as if he had never been blessed at all, and he forgets that blessing and its sweetness."
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"would stand over them saying, This is how you should treat your guests. A woman once said to Jesus, Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breast that nursed you. He replied, Blessed is the one who reads the book of Allah and follows it. He also said, Blessed is the one who weeps from the remembrance of his sins, preserves his tongue, and has a spacious home. And he said, Blessed is the eye that slept without entertaining thoughts of sin and awoke to thoughts of good."
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"sacred house is blessed, and His chosen land, referred to as the Levant, is a land of blessing. It is described as blessed in six verses of His book. Thus nothing is truly blessed except Him alone, and nothing is blessed except that which is related to His love, divinity, and pleasure, even though the entire universe is attributed to His lordship and creation."
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"which filled me with dread, so I could not bear to remain at the school and left. The distinguished and just jurist Ala al-Mulk al-Qurasani, known as Fasi al-Din, who had been a judge in Herat early in history, came to the king of India and was appointed to the city of Lari and its dependencies in Sindh. He attended this movement with Imad al-Mulk Sertiz and his troops, so I decided to travel with him to the city of Lari. He possessed fifteen boats brought down the Sindh river to carry his belongings, and I traveled with them. Among the boats of Faki ala al-Mulk was a vessel known as the Ahura, with the"
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"the name of your Lord, the Most High. Say, O disbelievers, and Al-Ikhlas, Al-Falaq, and An-Nas. Should you intend to arise during Surat al-Mulk, or Surat al-Yasin, or Surat al-Dukhan, or Surat al-Mulk, or Surat al-Yasin, or Surat al-Mulk, or Surat al-Yasin, or Surat al-Yasin, the night, then delay W.I.T.R. to be your final prayer, and engage afterward in studying knowledge or reading a book, avoiding frivolities or play, as these determine the final deeds before your sleep, for deeds are judged by their conclusions."
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"Say, O Allah, Owner of Sovereignty, You give sovereignty to whom You will and You take sovereignty away from whom You will. You honor whom You will and You humble whom You will. In Your hand is all good. Indeed, You are over all things competent. You cause the night to enter the day and You cause the day to enter the night, and You bring forth the living from the dead and You bring forth the dead from the living, and You provide for whom You will without measure." (Aal Imran 3:27) 3:26-27."
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"His governance through His speech is of two types: governance through His universal words and governance through His religious words. The perfection of sovereignty is achieved through both. The sending of messengers is a requirement of the perfection of His sovereignty and authority. This is the concept of sovereignty understood by human nature and intellect. Any king who does not have messengers to spread throughout his kingdom is not truly a king."
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"If this were the intended meaning, why did Allah praise Abraham, saying, "Thus We showed Ibrahim the dominion of the heavens and the earth"? Everything perceived by sight is referred to in the Quran as 'mulk' (dominion) and 'witnessed,' while what is beyond vision is 'unseen' and 'malakut' (divine sovereignty). Allah is the Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, and the Compeller over the dominion and the divine sovereignty."
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"Moses was in a valley called Tuwa, and he faced the Chibla, with the bush to his right from the western side. His Lord called him from the blessed valley of Tuwa, ordering him first to remove his sandals out of reverence and respect for that blessed spot, especially on that blessed night. According to the people of the book, he placed his hand over his face due to the intensity of the light, out of awe and fear for his sight."
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"They are those whom اللّٰه has blessed, as mentioned in the القُرْآن: "Those whom اللّٰه has blessed from among the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous. And excellent are those as companions." Thus, the path is attributed to the companions who walk it, those whom اللّٰه has blessed, so that the seeker of guidance and the straight path may not feel isolated from the people of his time and his kind."
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"The land to which Abraham intended to migrate was the Levant, referred to by Allah as the land which we have blessed for the worlds. This interpretation was supported by Ubay ibn Ka'b, Abu al-Aliya, Qatada, and others. Al-Aufi narrated from Ibn Abbas that this blessed land refers to Mecca, citing the verse, Indeed, the first house established for mankind was that at Baka, Mecca, blessed in guidance for the worlds."
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"He also mentioned, "Indeed, Allah, the Almighty, recited Ta-Ha and Ya-Sin a thousand years before He created the creation. When the angels heard the Qur'an, they said, 'Blessed is the nation upon whom this is sent down, blessed are the hearts that carry it, and blessed are the tongues that speak it.'" He said, "The best of you is he who learns the Qur'an and teaches it.""
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"that carried you in the breast. that nursed you. He replied, Blessed are those who read the book of God and follow it. Also from him, blessed is the one who weeps over the remembrance of his sin, guards his tongue, and finds sufficiency within his home. Blessed is the eye that sleeps without contemplating sin and wakes up free of guilt."
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"When one curses the doer, they are attributing it to time, but Allah is the true doer, the creator of everything. Allah says, Say, O Allah, possessor of sovereignty, you give sovereignty to whom you will and take sovereignty away from whom you will. You honor whom you will and humble whom you will. In your hand is all good."
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"Chapter Remembrance is of two types. One is the remembrance of the names of the Lord. Blessed and Exalted be He and His attributes. This involves praising Him through them, exalting Him, and sanctifying Him above anything unworthy of Him. This type of remembrance is further divided into two categories. The first is actively praising Him with these names and attributes. This is reflected in phrases like, Glory be to Allah, Praise be to Allah, There is no deity except Allah, Allah is the greatest, Glory be to Allah and praise be to Him, And there is no deity except Allah alone, No partner has He, Sovereignty belongs to Him in praise, And He is over all things competent."
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"on their account. Such is their blessing on themselves and on their companion. They share in the phrase, He has made me blessed wherever I may be. Thus the believer is blessed wherever they reside, and the evildoer is accursed wherever they reside. Gatherings of remembrance are gatherings of angels, while gatherings of heedlessness are gatherings of devils. Each is attached to its kind and those resembling it. A person gravitates to what suits them. Allah, glorified and exalted, takes pride in those who remember Him before His angels. Muawiyah came upon a circle in the mosque and asked, What has made you sit? They replied, We are sitting to remember Allah. He said,"
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"prophet's nation and aid them in fighting the accursed Dajjal. I will bring you down at the time of prayer, but you will not lead them in prayer because they are a blessed nation, and there will be no prophet after their prophet. It is narrated that Jesus said, O Lord, inform me about this blessed nation. He replied, They are the nation of Ahmad. They are learned and wise, as if they were prophets. They are content with little from me and I am pleased with little from their deeds. I admit them into paradise with there is no god but Allah. O Jesus, they are the majority of the inhabitants of paradise, for the tongues of no people have ever humbled themselves with"
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