Overall meaning : Allah, Exalted be He, explains that no living creature on earth but depends for its sustenance on Him, all by His grace and through His munificence; and He knows the place of its retreat in this life and where it dies and its final resting place after its death. All this is recorded in the clear book of His decrees—the Preserved Tablet. It is He, Allah declares, who created the heavens and the earth in six days—and His Throne was upon water before that—to test people and see which of them excel in obedience and good deeds. Then He addresses His Prophet, saying: If you say, Messenger, to these idolaters that they will be resurrected after death, they will hasten to deny it and say, 'The Qur’an that you recite to us is clearly nothing but manifest, downright magic.’