38 Preface وَلَقَد خَلَقنَا السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضَ وَما بَينَهُما في سِتَّةِ أَيّامٍ وَما مَسَّنا مِن لُغوبٍYusuf AliWe created the heavens1 and the earth and all between them in Six Days,2 nor did any sense of weariness touch Us.3God’s creation of the heavens and the earth in long stages or periods of time, as we count time, shows how things evolve in their own good time. We must therefore be patient if Good does not seem to come to its own according to our ideas. Our will should merge itself in God’s Will, and we should praise Him, realising that He is All-Good and that all adjustments will be in the Hereafter.Cf. 7:54, n. 1031; and 41:12. n. 4477.Cf. 35:35.