It is cited in Mufrad at Raqib...

It is cited in Mufrad at Raqib: “Weight is the knowledge as to the quantity of the thing.” This Qur’anic word refers to the exact keeping of the wonderful accounts and the measurements which are appropriate to all parts of plants, each of which has its own particles as of stems, branches, leaves, layers, seeds, and fruits.

There are perhaps hundreds of thousands of plants with various qualifications and varieties of effects the knowledge of which provides us with an outlook into the cognition of Allah, and the foliage of each leaf opens up a new chapter and presents a new volume upon the knowledge unto the Creator. This possibility has also been forwarded that the objective of mentioning growth in this phrase is in case of various mines in mountains, because Arabs also refer to mines as /’inbat/.

In some quotations, there are also allusions made to this very meaning. A tradition narrated from Imam Baqir (as) denotes: “Someone asked him about the commentary of this verse, and he answered: ‘The objective is that Allah has created the mines of gold, silver,…