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Exalted. Allah says in the Koran:
"Have We not made the earth a cradle and the mountains as pegs? And We created you in pairs, and We
made your sleep a rest, and We made the night a mantle, and We made the day for a livelihood. And We
built above you seven strong ones, and placed in them a blazing lamp and have sent down from the
clouds pouring rain that We may bring forth with it grain and plants and luxuriant gardens." (Quran
78:6-16).
And again,
"Assuredly in the creation of the Heaven and of the Earth; and in the alternation of night and day;
and in
the ships which pass through the sea with what is useful to man; and in the rain which Allah sends
down
from Heaven, giving life by it to the earth after its death, and by scattering over it all kinds of
cattle; and
in the change of the winds, and in the clouds that are compelled between the Heaven and the Earth;
are
"Have We not made the earth a cradle and the mountains as pegs? And We created you in pairs, and We
made your sleep a rest, and We made the night a mantle, and We made the day for a livelihood. And We
built above you seven strong ones, and placed in them a blazing lamp and have sent down from the
clouds pouring rain that We may bring forth with it grain and plants and luxuriant gardens." (Quran
78:6-16).
And again,
"Assuredly in the creation of the Heaven and of the Earth; and in the alternation of night and day;
and in
the ships which pass through the sea with what is useful to man; and in the rain which Allah sends
down
from Heaven, giving life by it to the earth after its death, and by scattering over it all kinds of
cattle; and
in the change of the winds, and in the clouds that are compelled between the Heaven and the Earth;
are