One is that He created a dry and motionless earth from the water of a bottomless river, whose surface was pounding by waves. And He established the earth in such a way that it bears a deep and enclosed (within the bounds of God's decree) river, which is helpless before His command and naked before His fear, and its flow is restrained by His fear, and He created solid smooth stones, mounds and mountains, and set them in their places and established them in their places, so that their tops rend the sky. and the foundations are sunk in the water. Thus He raised the mountains from the low and level ground, and lowered their foundations into the earth in their expanses and their abodes. may sink or leave its place because of live Indeed, among these things, service is an example for the person who fears Allah.