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234 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FROM THE QUR'AN

The two seas are not the same: the one is sweet, refreshing, delicious
to drink, the other salty, bitter to the taste. Yet from both of them you
eat fresh flesh and extract ornaments for yourselves to wear; and you
see ships on them, cleaving through the waves so that you can seek
His bounty and so that hopefully you will be thankful. (Surah Fatir, 12)
It is Allah Who has made the sea subservient to you so that the ships
sail on it at His command, enabling you to seek His bounty, so that
hopefully you will be thankful. (Surat al-Jathiyya, 12)

THE EARTH AND THE SKY
Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky and
threads it through the earth to emerge as springs and then by it brings
forth crops of varying colours, which then wither and you see them
turning yellow and then He makes them into broken stubble? There is
a reminder in that for people of intelligence. (Surat az-Zumar, 21)
It is Allah Who made the earth a stable home for you and the sky a
dome, and formed you, giving you the best of forms, and provided
you with good and wholesome things. That is Allah, your Lord.
Blessed be Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. (Surah Ghafir, 64)
Among His Signs is that you see the earth laid bare and then when
We send down water on it, it quivers and swells. He Who gives it life is
He Who gives life to the dead. Certainly He has power over all things.
(Surah Fussilat, 39)
We did not create the heavens and the earth and everything between
them as a game. (Surat ad-Dukhan, 38)
And He has made everything in the heavens and everything on the
earth subservient to you. It is all from Him. There are certainly Signs in
that for people who reflect. (Surat al-Jathiyya, 13)
And the earth: how We stretched it out and cast firmly embedded
mountains onto it and caused luxuriant plants of every kind to grow in
it. (Surah Qaf, 7)

ROADS
Allah has spread the earth out as a carpet for you so that you could
use its wide valleys as roadways."' (Surah Nuh, 19-20)