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Landscapes Mentioned in the Qur'an 233

Has the story of Musa reached you: when his Lord called out to him
in the holy valley of Tuwa? (Surat an-Na'ziat, 15-16)
And as for poets, it is the misled who follow them. Do you not see
that they wander about bewildered in every valley? (Surat ash-
Shu'ara', 224-225)
Then, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant said, 'Ants!
Enter your dwellings so that Sulayman and his troops do not crush
you unwittingly.' (Surat an-Naml, 18)

GARDENS AND SPRINGS
We expelled them from gardens and springs. (Surat ash-Shu'ara', 57)
Have fear of Him Who has supplied you with what you know, sup-
plied you with livestock and children and gardens and clear springs.
(Surat ash-Shu'ara', 132-134)
… amid gardens and clear springs, and cultivated fields and palms
with supple spathes? Will you continue hewing houses from the
mountains with exultant skill? (Surat ash-Shu'ara', 147-149)
How many gardens and fountains they left behind, (Surat ad-
Dukhan, 25)

SEAS
He Who made the earth a stable dwelling place and appointed
rivers flowing through its midst and placed firmly embedded
mountains on it and set a barrier between the two seas. Is there an-
other god besides Allah? No indeed, but most of them do not know
it! (Surat an-Naml, 61)
He Who guides you in the darkness of land and sea and sends out
the winds bringing advance news of His mercy. Is there another god
besides Allah? May Allah be exalted above what they associate with
Him! (Surat an-Naml, 63)
Corruption has appeared in both land and sea because of what peo-
ple's own hands have brought about so that they may taste something
of what they have done so that hopefully they will turn back. (Surat ar-
Rum, 41)