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We gave David great favor from Us: "O mountains and birds!
                 Echo with him in his praise!" And We made iron malleable
                                 for him: (Surah Saba', 10)


                 There is a strong possibility that the description of mountains "echo-
            ing" in the above verse may refer to the workings of a modern radio.
            (Allah knows the truth.) The basic principles on which radios operate
            may be summarized as follows:
                A radio system consists of a transmitter and a receiver. The trans-
            mitter takes the message to be sent, encodes it in what is known as a "sine

            wave" and transmits it in the form of waves through the air. The receiver
                                                 takes in the radio waves and de-
                                                 ciphers the message sent on the
                                                 sine wave. In this way, the mes-
                                                 sage is received in exactly the
                                                 same form as it was sent. The
                                                 word "awwibee," translated as
                                                 "echo" in the above verse and
                                                 meaning "sound being repeated
                                                 or returned", may very well be a







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