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We know well that there is not a thing as sky around us, to be split or rent asunder. Therefore, by splitting the sky we may take it to mean that the visible world will split and give way to the unseen world [ 397 ] to appear through the said cleft or crack. In other word; today we see the sky remote, vacant, and without any inhabitants, except some clouds of various forms and densities, and being a field for the birds to fly.

But tomorrow, when the wonderful incident of Resurrection occurs, things overhead will appear to us differently! The sky will appear to be inhabited by the angels, Jins, and other creatures. The verse then applies to a clear characteristic of the Resurrection Day in which the real commander and the true giver of order will prove to be the Merciful to Whom always belongs the dominion of the sky and the earth, and the rulership of everything.

Whenever Ugba returned from a journey, it was his custom to hold a party and invite some of the neighbouring people to dinner. In one of such parties the prophet too, was invited. His holiness attended the party but refused to eat anything there! Ugba was an idolater declared as unclean by Qura"n, and therefore the prophet could not dine with him.