He planned it neither too soft so that you be drowned in it...

He planned it neither too soft so that you be drowned in it, like in water, nor too rigid and stable to enable you to build houses and make graves to bury the corpses of your men (which cause many disasters when they remain unburied)... Yes, it is for this reason that He has spread out the earth as a resting place for you'." [^1] The word / bana /, considering the term / alaykum/ 'above you', refers to the meaning that the heaven is made up above you like a canopy.