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3295 Cf. xvi. 15 and notes 2038 and 2039. The terra firma, the flowing water, and the cycle of water circulation-sea, vapour,
clouds, rain, rivers, and sea again,-all one and yet all distinct, with a sort of wonderful barrier between salt water and
fresh water: can man see all this and yet be ignorant of Allah? (27.61)
26:149 - "And ye carve house out of (rocky) mountains with great skill.
27:88 - Thou seest the mountains and thinkest them firmly fixed: but they shall pass away as the
clouds pass away: (such is) the artistry of Allah Who disposes of all things in perfect order: for
He is well-acquainted with all that ye do. 33183319
3318 This is so in the present phase of phenomenal things, both literally and figuratively. There seems nothing more firm or
fixed or permanent than the "eternal hills": yet when the new order of things comes and the new World is brought into
being, they will be as flimsy and unsubstantial as clouds. So, in the revaluation of things in the Hereafter persons or
things or ideas that seem so great and so firmly established now will pass away like mere fancies and give way to the
Reality of Allah. (27.88)
33:72 - We did indeed offer the Trust to the Heavens and the Earth and the Mountains: but they
refused to undertake it being afraid thereof: but man undertook it he was indeed unjust and
foolish 377737783779378037813782
3778 Cf. lix. 21, where the hypothetical sending down of the Qur-an to the Mountains is mentioned, and it is mentioned that
such Parables are put forth in order to aid men to reflection. (33.72)
3779 The Heavens, the Earth, and the Mountains, ie., other creatures of Allah, besides man, refused to undertake a Trust
or a responsibility, and may be imagined as happy without a choice of good or evil being given through their will. In
saying that they refused, we imply a will, but we limit it by the statement that they did not undertake to be given a
choice between good and evil. They preferred to submit their will entirely to Allah's Will, which is All-Wise and Perfect,
and which would give them far more happiness than a faculty of choice, with their imperfect knowledge. Man was too
audacious and ignorant to realise this, and the result has been that man as a race has been disrupted: the evil ones
have betrayed the Trust and brought Punishment on themselves, though the good have been able to rise far above
other Creation, to be the muqarrabin, the nearest ones to Allah: lvi. 11 and lvi. 88. What can be higher than this for
any creature? It follows incidentally from this that the Heavens and the Earth were created before man was created
and this is in accordance with what we know of the physical world in science: man came on the scene at a
comparatively late stage. (33.72)
34:10 - We bestowed Grace aforetime on David from Ourselves: "O ye Mountains! sing ye back the
Praises of Allah with him! and ye birds (also)! and We made the iron soft for Him 37993800
3799 Cf. xxi. 79-80, and notes 2733-34. David had the gift of song and sacred music, and this is shown in his Psalms. All
nature-hills and birds-sing and echo back the Praises of Allah. (34.10)
35:27 - Seest thou not that Allah sends down rain from the sky? With it We then bring out produce
of various colors. And in the mountains are tracts white and red of various shades of color
and black intense in hue. 39103911
3910 Everyone can see how Allah's artistry produces from rain the wonderful variety of crops and fruits-golden, green, red,
yellow, and showing all the most beautiful tints we can think of. And each undergoes in nature the gradual shading off
in its transformation from the raw stage to the stage of maturity. (35.27)
3911 These wonderful colours and shades of colours are to be found not only in vegetation but in rocks and mineral
products. There are the white veins of marble and quartz or of chalk, the red laterite, the blue basaltic rocks, the inkblack
flints, and all the variety, shade, and gradation of colours. Speaking of mountains, we think of their "azure hue"
from a distance, due to atmospheric effects, and these atmospheric effects lead our thoughts to the glories of clouds,
sunsets, the zodiacal light, the aurora borealis, and all kinds of Nature's gorgeous pageantry. (35.27)
41:10 - He set on the (earth) Mountains standing firm high above it and bestowed blessings on the
earth and measured therein all things to give them nourishment in due proportion in four Days
in accordance with (the needs of) those who seek (sustenance). 447144724473
4471 Cf. xiii. 3 and xvi. 15, n. 2038. High above it: the highest mountains are 29,000 feet above sea-level, and the lowest
depths of the bottom of the ocean are 31,600 feet below sea-level, so that the vertical difference between the highest
and lowest points on the solid crust of the earth is about 11-1/2 miles. The highland areas are the main sources of the
water-supply in all the regions of the earth, and vegetable and animal life depends on water-supply. (41.10)
50:7 - And the earth--We have spread it out and set thereon mountains standing firm and produced
therein every kind of beautiful growth (in pairs) 49464947
4946 Cf. xiii. 3; and xv. 19 and n. 1955. The earth is round, and yet it appears stretched out as a
vast expanse, like a carpet kept steady with the weight of the mountains. (50.7)
52:10 - And the mountain will fly hither and thither. 5044
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