God be he exalted says: (Allah,
it is He Who has made for you the earth as a dwelling place and the sky
as a canopy, and has given you shape and made your shapes good
(looking) and has provided you with good things. That is Allah, your
Lord: so blessed be Allah, the Lord of the ‘Âlamîn (mankind, jinn and all that exists). [Surat Ghafir, verse: 64].
The explanation of the verse:
Almighty God talks about his graces that
He bestowed upon his people. From these graces that He be exalted made
the earth settled for its inhabitants and made the sky as a canopy. He
also created mankind in the best shape and He provided them with good
things.
Ibn
Kathir says that (dwelling place) means that the earth is fixed and
still, it doesn't shake or move with its people and if it wasn't settled
it will be impossible to live on.
Scientific fact:
In
the modern era, scientists have discovered that all the planets have
gravity that attracts the nearby bodies and the force of gravity is
proportional to the mass of this planet and the distance between it and
the bodies that it attracts.
Newton was the first one to discover the law of gravity in the 17th
century. It was shown that all the cosmic bodies like the sun, moon,
planets, stars, and cosmic dust, etc. all have gravitational fields.
Therefore
the earth has a gravity field that attracts people to it and because of
this gravity the objects are settled on the surface of the earth even
the atmosphere. This means that if there wasn't a gravitational field
for the earth, the atmosphere would have escaped and faded away in the
outer space. Hence, the gravity is the reason for the stability of life
on earth.
The point of inimitability:
Through Gods saying: (Allah, it is He Who has made for you the earth as a dwelling place),
we notice that God be He exalted told us about the grace of settling
the earth and settling the objects on its surface. And the word
(dwelling) refers to the stability of creatures on the earth which is an
indication to the gravity and that is what scientists have discovered.
This
verse was revealed at the time when no one was aware of the importance
of gravity and stability on earth which attests to the truthfulness of
this Quran and that it is a book from Almighty God.
This
is a picture of the earth and the moon appears beside it, and we notice
that the earth has a gravitational field that attracts the moon towards
it. And without this gravity, life wouldn't have continued on its
surface. God be he exalted says: (Allah,
it is He Who has made for you the earth as a dwelling place and the sky
as a canopy, and has given you shape and made your shapes good
(looking) and has provided you with good things. That is Allah, your
Lord: so blessed be Allah, the Lord of the ‘Âlamîn (mankind, jinn and all that exists). [Surat Ghafir, verse: 64].
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