Mountains

الجبال

Mountains as pegs and anchors God cast in the earth lest it shake with you; He bade them glorify with David; and they nearly sank when the Trust was offered them — they refused to bear it, and man bore it.

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Region
Global / Diaspora

Environment and climateCosmology and creation

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Mentioned in
Muwatta 2781· Qur'an 13:3· Qur'an 15:19· Qur'an 16:15· Qur'an 27:88· Qur'an 31:10· Qur'an 33:72· Qur'an 35:27· Qur'an 38:18· Qur'an 50:7· Qur'an 59:21· Qur'an 77:27· Qur'an 78:7· Qur'an 95:2
Related to
Dawud (David)

People and things also explored

Iron· David's ewes· The sheep· Muwatta, Book of Miscellaneous (al-jami')· Abu Said al-Khudri· Malik ibn Anas· Sulayman (Solomon)· Jerusalem

Sources

  • Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
  • Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
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Related

Iron

God sent down iron — in it great might and uses for people, and that He may know who aids Him and His messengers unseen; and He made it soft for David: 'make coats of mail.'