The Holy Quran 78:7 — Surah An-Naba

Arabic text

وَٱلْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًا

Translation

...the mountains pegs (to lend stability to the earth, having their bulk underground like tent pegs)...

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The mountains as pegs: just as a thing into which a peg has been driven does not move from its place, so too the earth, which at first trembled and shook — Allah, by creating the mountains, removed its agitation and quaking. It is as if the earth obtained a kind of stability from the mountains.

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