The Holy Quran 27:88 — Surah An-Naml

Arabic text

وَتَرَى ٱلْجِبَالَ تَحْسَبُهَا جَامِدَةً وَهِىَ تَمُرُّ مَرَّ ٱلسَّحَابِ ۚ صُنْعَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَتْقَنَ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ خَبِيرٌۢ بِمَا تَفْعَلُونَ

Translation

(On the Day of Qiyaamah,) You will look at the mountains, thinking (expecting) them to be solid (firmly entrenched in the ground) but they will be passing by like clouds (flying about as they are thrown into the air and eventually reduced to dust). (This is all) The doing of Allaah Who perfects everything (just as Allaah grants strength to weak things, so too can He weaken strong things like the mountains). Indeed He is Informed (fully aware) of what you do (and will take you to task for the wrong you do).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The mountains will fly like tufts of cotton: that is, the huge mountains which, seeing them now, you imagine to be fixed in the earth for ever and never able to budge from their place, will on the Day of Resurrection fly about in the air like tufts of cotton and move swiftly like clouds.

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