3. Sura al-Imran

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

أَفَغَيْرَ دِينِ اللّهِ يَبْغُونَ...

3: 83. Do they seek for other than the Religion of Allah?

...وَلَهُ أَسْلَمَ مَن فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ طَوْعًا وَكَرْهًا ...

While all creatures in the heavens and on earth have, willing or unwilling, bowed to His Will (accepted Islam),

C417. Allah's Truth is manifest, and all that is good and true and sane and normal accepts it with joy.

But even where there is "disease in the heart" (2:10), or judgment is obscured by perversity, every creature must eventually see and acknowledge Allah and His power (2:167).

Cf. R. Bridges: "Testament of Beauty": iv. 1419-22:-

"For God's love is unescapable as nature's environment, which if a man ignore or think to thrust it off, he is the ill-natured fool that runneth blindly on death."

All Nature adores Allah, and Islam asks for nothing peculiar or sectarian; it but asks that we follow our nature and make our will conformable to Allah's Will as seen in Nature, history, and revelation.

Its message is universal.

... وَإِلَيْهِ يُرْجَعُونَ ﴿٨٣﴾

and to Him shall they all be brought back.

Asad’s Version:

3: 83 …WHATEVER IS IN THE HEAVENS AND ON EARTH SURRENDERS ITSELF, WILLINGLY OR UNWILLINGLY, SINCE UNTO HIM ALL MUST RETURN.