18:39 “When you entered your garden, you should have said, ‘This is what GOD has given me (Mã Shã Allãh). No one possesses power except GOD (Lã Quwwata Ellã Bellãh).’ You may see that I possess less money and less children than you.
18:40 “My Lord may grant me better than your garden. He may send a violent storm from the sky that wipes out your garden, leaving it completely barren.
18:41 “Or, its water may sink deeper, out of your reach.”
18:42 Indeed, his crops were wiped out, and he ended up sorrowful, lamenting what he had spent on it in vain, as his property lay barren. He finally said, “I wish I never set up my property as a god beside my Lord.”
18:43 No force on earth could have helped him against GOD, nor was it possible for him to receive any help.
18:44 That is because the only true Lord and master is GOD; He provides the best recompense, and with Him is the best destiny.
18:45 Cite for them the example of this life as water that we send down from the sky to produce plants of the earth, then they turn into hay that is blown away by the wind. GOD is able to do all things.
All Power Belongs To God
10:107 If GOD touches you with a hardship, none can relieve it except He. And when He blesses you, no force can prevent His grace. He bestows it upon whomever He chooses from among His servants. He is the Forgiver, Most Merciful.
All Power Belongs to God
11:31 “I do not claim that I possess the treasures of GOD, nor do I know the future, nor do I claim to be an angel. Nor do I say to those despised by your eyes that GOD will not bestow any blessings upon them. GOD knows best what is in their innermost thoughts. (If I did this,) I would be a transgressor.”
10:65 Do not be saddened by their utterances. All power belongs to GOD. He is the Hearer, the Omniscient.
Knowing God
10:61 You do not get into any situation, nor do you recite any Quran, nor do you do anything, without us being witnesses thereof as you do it. Not even an atom’s weight is out of your Lord’s control, be it in the heavens or the earth. Nor is there anything smaller than an atom, or larger, that is not recorded in a profound record.
67:30 Say, “What if your water sinks away, who will provide you with pure water?”
39:21 Do you not see that GOD sends down from the sky water, then places it into underground wells, then produces with it plants of various colors, then they grow until they turn yellow, then He turns them into hay? This should be a reminder for those who possess intelligence.
Job 38:4-7New International Version (NIV) 4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. 5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? 6 On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone— 7 while the morning stars sang together and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?
Water has one of the highest surface tensions of any normal liquid, second to mercury. This surface tension allows water to rise in the thin tubes, or capillaries, of plants. Water doesn’t just stick to itself, it sticks to almost all substances, this is called wetting. Because of these properties water won’t sink deep into the earth despite gravity.
In the example of 18:45 and 57:20 the water is brought from the clouds and creates the plants, while the plant eventually dies the water goes back to the heavens.
Preoccupation With This Life Condemned 57:20 Know that this worldly life is no more than play and games, and boasting among you, and hoarding of money and children. It is like abundant rain that produces plants and pleases the disbelievers. But then the plants turn into useless hay, and are blown away by the wind. In the Hereafter there is either severe retribution, or forgiveness from GOD and approval. This worldly life is no more than a temporary illusion.