Surah Al-Jathiyah, Verse 1

Tafsir of 45:1

Which was revealed in Makkah بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. A Directive to contemplate over Allah's Ayat Allah directs His servants to contemplate His favors and gifts, as well as His great power that is demonstrated by His creating the heavens and the earth and the various types and categories of creatures in them. There are the angels, Jinns, humans, animals, birds, beasts, carnivores, insects and various kinds of sea creatures. The night and day alternate, each follows the other in succession, never ceasing to come, as decreed. One brings darkness and one brings light. Allah the Exalted also sends down the rain from the clouds when it is most needed. He is calling the rain, `provision', because it is the resource that produces various provisions, فَأَحْيَا بِهِ الاٌّرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا (and revives therewith the earth after its death,) after it was dry and had no vegetation or life of any kind. Allah said next, وَتَصْرِيفِ الرِّيَحِ (and in the turning about of the winds,) sometimes towards the south and sometimes towards the north.…

Source: Ibn Kathir (Abridged)