Literal rendering: “Indeed We, everything, We created it with Qadar”.
Implied meaning: “There is no doubt that We created every last thing with a Qadar”.
The object كُلَّ شَيْءٍ (“Everything”) is placed before the verb خَلَقْنَا (“We created”) and then resumed by the pronoun هُ in خَلَقْنَاهُ (“We created it”).
By spotlighting كُلَّ شَيْءٍ, nothing escapes inclusion—every last thing falls under it.
قَدَر can mean “measure” — everything is مُقَدَّر, set with precise proportions and attributes that are neither increased nor decreased.
قَدْ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدْرًا
“Allah has indeed set for everything a Qadr.”
From قُدْرَة (power/ability): “We created everything with power, control, and according to Our Will.”
It can also be understood that creation is endowed with a measured capacity or capability as part of that decree.
قَدَر can imply ordainment and predecreed timing—events unfold within a divinely set framework.
جِئْتَ عَلَىٰ قَدَرٍ يَا مُوسَىٰ
“You came (here) at the ordained time, O Musa.”
Nothing is created casually; creation operates by relations, proportions, limits, and consequences with exact measure, proportion, and timing.
“It means that it is ordained and written in اللَّوْحِ الْمَحْفُوظ before it happens.”
According to this, Qadar relates to the perfect knowledge of Allah.
He relates it to what came before: “Taste, because indeed We have created everything with a Qadar,” indicating that the punishment commanded to be tasted corresponds to what Allah has measured and ordained.
Their destruction occurred by ordained stages and measures.
A decreed moment where they “turn their backs in flight”.
The final and climactic stage, set to occur at its appointed time.
“Everything” is emphasized so entirely that it leaves no exception outside the divine creation and decree.
Every entity is given a precise measure, attributes, relations, limitations, and consequences.
Creation unfolds under power, control, and will; capacities within creation are granted as part of ordained measure.
Events and moments are not casual; their occurrence aligns with decreed stages and timings within a divine plan.
The verse’s structure makes that which is created—“everything”—so prominent that it nearly overshadows the act of creation itself.
إِنَّا emphasizes the doer (“We”), yet the construction uniquely intensifies the scope of what is created.
The Nakirah form of قَدَر magnifies greatness while indicating that the particulars of that measure remain beyond our knowledge.