رَّسُولًۭا يَتْلُوا۟ عَلَيْكُمْ ءَايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ مُبَيِّنَٰتٍۢ لِّيُخْرِجَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ مِنَ ٱلظُّلُمَٰتِ إِلَى ٱلنُّورِ ۚ وَمَن يُؤْمِنۢ بِٱللَّهِ وَيَعْمَلْ صَٰلِحًۭا يُدْخِلْهُ جَنَّٰتٍۢ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَآ أَبَدًۭا ۖ قَدْ أَحْسَنَ ٱللَّهُ لَهُۥ رِزْقًا
an apostle reciting to you the manifest signs of Allah that He may bring out those who have faith and do righteous deeds from darkness into light. And whoever has faith in Allah and does righteous deeds, He shall admit him into gardens with streams running in them, to remain in them forever. Allah has certainly granted him an excellent provision.
ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَٰوَٰتٍۢ وَمِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ مِثْلَهُنَّ يَتَنَزَّلُ ٱلْأَمْرُ بَيْنَهُنَّ لِتَعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ قَدِيرٌۭ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ قَدْ أَحَاطَ بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ عِلْمًۢا
It is Allah who has created seven heavens, and of the earth [a number] similar to them. The command gradually descends through them, that you may know that Allah has power over all things, and that Allah comprehends all things in knowledge.
English translation: Ali Quli Qarai
The sura closes on its theological summit: a Messenger reciting the clear signs of God, sent to bring the believers who do righteous deeds out of the darknesses into the light and into eternal Gardens; and the declaration that God created seven heavens, and of the earth the like of them, the command descending among them, that you may know that God is Powerful over all things and encompasses all things in knowledge.
al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī (al-Mīzān) identifies the 'Reminder' sent down with the Messenger himself — Muḥammad, so named as the means of reminding of God — noting al-Zamakhsharī's alternative (Gabriel) but preferring the apparent sense of 'reciting to you'. On 65:12 he canvasses the possibilities for 'seven earths' (seven globes, seven layers, seven climes, even man as an earthly microcosm mirroring the heavens) and reads yatanazzalu al-amr as the existential command ('Be!', per 36:82; 32:5; 41:12) descending through the heavens to actualize being, death, life and provision — explicitly rejecting the narrower 'legislative command' reading as unsupported by the verse's close. In his baḥth riwāʾī he reports the Imāmī traditions — al-Qummī and al-Burhān's al-Riḍā narration that 'the Reminder is the Messenger of God and we are his people', and al-Riḍā's cosmological ḥadīth of seven earths under seven domed heavens in which the Master of the Command is the Prophet and the waṣī after him stands on the earth receiving the descending command — but characteristically distances himself, judging the tradition 'rare in its category' and 'more apt to be borne on the metaphorical than the literal sense'.
al-Ṭabarsī and al-Ṭūsī parse the grammar of rasūlan (substitution for 'Reminder', or object of an elided 'He sent') and read the darkness-to-light as disbelief-to-faith (or ignorance-to-knowledge). al-Ṭūsī turns the verse against the Mujbira (Compulsionists): 'that you may know' proves God wills the responsible to know His power, refuting the claim that He wills some to remain ignorant of Him — a characteristic kalām reading. On 'seven earths' both note this is the Qurʾan's only such verse; al-Ṭabarsī cites Ibn ʿAbbās (via Abū Ṣāliḥ) for seven sea-separated earths and the ʿAyyāshī/al-Riḍā domed-earths report, and identifies the 'Master of the Command' with the Prophet, the command descending through the angels to the prophets — a notably more restrained form of the same tradition al-Mīzān and al-Baḥrānī give with the added waṣī/Qāʾim clause.
al-Baḥrānī gathers the fullest narration-set: ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm and al-Riḍā (al-Maʾmūn's assembly) that 'the Reminder is the Messenger and we are the people of the Reminder (ahl al-dhikr)'; Ibn ʿAbbās (via Ibn Shahrāshūb) that 'the Prophet is a reminder from God and ʿAlī a reminder from Muḥammad'; the al-Riḍā seven-earths ḥadīth with the ṣāḥib al-amr/waṣī identification; and ʿAlī's Kūfa-mosque cosmology to the Syrian (first-created light, heavens from water-vapour, the named and coloured seven heavens). al-Qummī gives the same in miniature: 'the Reminder' is the name of the Messenger, 'we are ahl al-dhikr', and the seven-earths verse proves an earth beneath each heaven. These ahl al-dhikr = the Imams and waṣī = Master of the Command readings are rendered strictly as-attributed and flagged for review. The Enlightening Commentary closes devotionally — awareness of the divine attributes as a prelude to worship and spiritual growth — with a prayer to be delivered 'from the shadows of sins into the light of faith'.