1 (The âyah اَلَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الْاَرْضَ فِرَاشًا وَالسَّمَاءَ بِنَاءً : He is the One Who has made the earth a place of settlement for you and the sky a canopy…)

2 (Imkân literally means being possible, possibility, feasibility and practicability. The opposite of necessity, or necessary existence, which is wujûb.

As an Islamic term: Contingent beings. Contingency. The entirety of creation, where existence and non-existence hold equal possibility, and both require a cause to come into existence. Anything that depends on another being in order to exist. Whatever exists other than Al-Wajib Al-Wujûd. Allah, Who is Al-Wâjib Al-Wujûd, chooses their existence through His will and irâdah and gives them a particular essence, a specific form, a distinct identity, particular attributes, qualities full of hikmah and beneficial organs from amongst the infinite possibilities.) (Tr.)

3 (In the translation of Abdulkadir Badıllı, the explanation of this is as follows:

“That is, it refers to the possibility and ability to possess or not possess those states and qualities.”) (Tr.)