The Holy Quran 21:31 — Surah Al-Anbya

Arabic text

وَجَعَلْنَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ رَوَٰسِىَ أَن تَمِيدَ بِهِمْ وَجَعَلْنَا فِيهَا فِجَاجًا سُبُلًا لَّعَلَّهُمْ يَهْتَدُونَ

Translation

We have placed counterweights (mountains) on the earth so that it does not shake with them (people), and We have made wide roads on earth so that they be guided (in their travels from place to place).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

its explanation has already been given in Surah An-Nahl. Broad paths through the mountains: that is, so that the people of one land may meet the people of another. Had the mountains been laid in such a way that the paths were blocked, how would this have been possible? (So in Mudih al-Quran.)

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