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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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