The Holy Quran 21:30 — Surah Al-Anbya

Arabic text

أَوَلَمْ يَرَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ كَانَتَا رَتْقًا فَفَتَقْنَـٰهُمَا ۖ وَجَعَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلْمَآءِ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ حَىٍّ ۖ أَفَلَا يُؤْمِنُونَ

Translation

Do the Kuffaar not see that the skies and the earth were once closed (no rain fell from the sky and no plants grew on earth), then (when man was placed on earth) We opened them (so that man could survive)? And We created every living thing from water. Will they still not accept Imaan?

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The primal matter of creation: the original meaning of [the word] رتق (ratq) is to be joined together and to merge into one another. In the beginning the earth and the heavens both lay in the darkness of non-existence, indistinguishable from each other; then in the first stages of existence too they remained intermingled; after that the hand of power…

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