The Prophets
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[21:105]
AND, INDEED, after having exhorted [man], We laid it down in all the books of divine wisdom that My righteous servants shall inherit the earth:

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* v.105 : Lit., “after the reminder (adh-dhikr).” For the deeper implications of the Qur’anic term dhikr, see note 13 on verse 10 of this sūrah.
* Zabūr (lit., “scripture” or “book”) is a generic term denoting any “book of wisdom”: hence, any and all of the divine scriptures revealed by God to the prophets (Tabarī). The statement that “My righteous servants shall inherit the earth” is obviously an echo of the promise, “You are bound to rise high if you are [truly] believers” (3:139) – the implication being that it is only through faith in God and righteous behaviour on earth that man can reach the heights envisaged for him by his Creator’s grace.