الَّذِي جَعَلَ
لَكُمُ الْأَرْضَ فِرَاشًا وَالسَّمَاءَ بِنَاءً وَأَنْزَلَ مِنَ
السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَخْرَجَ بِهِ مِنَ الثَّمَرَاتِ رِزْقًا لَكُمْ فَلَا
تَجْعَلُوا لِلَّهِ أَنْدَادًا وَأَنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ
Who has made the earth for
you a carpet and the heaven a canopy, and sent down from heaven water,
and brought forth therewith fruits as a provision for you[1]; set not up compeers to Allah while you know.
[1] The
Qur'an ... is in no sense a text-book of ever-changing physical
sciences, and even incidentally makes no mention of astronomical and
geographical facts as such. Various phenomena of nature, as they appear
to an average layman, clear of scientific bias one way or the other, it
only brings in to establish, strengthen and illustrate its central theme
-- the undivided and indivisible Sovereignty of the Lord-God -- and to
uproot the divinity of all minor 'gods,' such as corn-god, fruit-god,
etc.
