56إِنّي تَوَكَّلتُ عَلَى اللَّهِ رَبّي وَرَبِّكُم ۚ ما مِن دابَّةٍ إِلّا هُوَ آخِذٌ بِناصِيَتِها ۚ إِنَّ رَبّي عَلىٰ صِراطٍ مُستَقيمٍMuhammad AsadBehold, I have placed my trust in God, [who is] my Sustainer as well as your Sustainer: for there is no living creature which He does not hold by its forelock.1 Verily, straight is my Sustainer's way!2I.e., there is no living being over which He has not complete control and which is not entirely dependent on Him (cf. verse 6 of this surah). When describing a person's humility and subjection to another person, the ancient Arabs used to say, "The forelock of so-and-so is in the hand of so-and-so". See in this connection 96:15-16, where this idiomatic expression occurs for the first time in the chronological order of Qur'anic revelation.Lit., "my Sustainer is on a straight way" - implying that He governs all that exists in accordance with a system of truth and justice in the ultimate, absolute sense of these terms, never allowing the conscious evildoer to escape the consequence of his deeds, and never letting righteousness go unrewarded, either in this world or in the hereafter (since it is only in the combination of these two phases that human life can be considered in its entirety).