Al-Mulk
The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate the universality of God’s lordship of the universe against the claim of the idol-worshippers. The idol-worshippers maintained that every section of the universe has a lord from the angels and others while God is merely the lord of lords.
That is why, (in this chapter), God enumerates many of His blessings in creation and in (its) organization and management, which He does in the spirit of arguing and remonstrating in favor of His lordship. He inaugurates His speech with the mention of His blessedness (al-tabāruk), which refers to the abundant manifestation and flow of blessings from Him. He (then) repeats His description (in this chapter) by means of the attribute of al-raḥmān (the most Merciful), which word is a hyperbolic form of al-raḥmah (mercy). Al-raḥmah means ‘to grant in the face of the evocation of poverty’. This chapter (also) contains warnings, which (warnings) terminate with the mention of the day of the resurrection of mankind and their gathering (for reckoning and requital).
The contents of this chapter can be summarized as a call to the unity of (God’s) lordship, and resurrection. This chapter is of Meccan provenance on the basis of the testimony of the contents of its verses.
This is the ʿAllāmah's introduction to the sūrah, from the opening of the commentary.