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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Light of the Holy Qur'an Interpretation Of( Insan and Mursalat and Naba ) Sura Nabaa (the Great News) No.

And the mountains as pegs And We created you in pairs, And We made your sleep for repose, And We made the night as a covering And We made the day for (seeking) livelihood, And We built above you seven firmaments And We made (therein) a blazing lamp, And We sent down from the clouds water in abundance That We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, And gardens of luxurious growth?

Commentary: These verses are, in fact, an answer to the questions of the rejecters of the Resurrection, and those who differ on /aba'-in-'azim/ 'the Great News' since, these verses mention a portion of the wise order of this world of being and its reasonable gifts, which have a very effective function in Man's life.

They are, on the one hand, a few of the clear Signs of Allah's power over all things; including the rebirth of the dead, and on the other hand, they point to the fact that this Wise order cannot exist in vain since, if with the end of this material world all other things end, too, this life will certainly be in vain. Thus, these verses can be considered as some reasons for the Resurrection from two points of view: (1) Through the 'reasoning of power', and (2) through the reasoning of knowledge'.

In these eleven verses, twelve important blessings are pointed out, mixed with grace and affection and accompanied with reasoning and stimulation of the sentiments. As bare rational reasoning is not quite sufficient, sentiments and affections are needed. first, it begins with the earth and says: Have We not made the earth a (wide) expanse? The term /mihad/, as Raqib cites in his book, Mufradat, means 'a level and tidy place'. It is derived from the term mahd 'a bed, cradle'.

Some commentators and philologists have rendered it to mean 'bed', which is both soft and comfortable.