cant impotent creatures like you, if you were each infidel enemies the size of mountains or the earth, they would be able to hurl stars, flaming projectiles, and molten metal the size of mountains or the earth at you, and rout you. And you break such a law that those bound by it could if necessary strike your earth in your face, and rain down on you stars like cannonballs the size of your globe.”
Yes, in the Qur’an are important concentrations of forces which arise not from the enemies’ strength, but from reasons like the displaying of majesty and exhibiting the enemy’s wickedness. Then sometimes it mobilizes against the littlest and weakest thing, the largest and most powerful causes, in order to show its perfect order, infinite justice, vast knowledge, and power of wisdom, and it holds them above it; but does not make them fall upon it or aggress against it. For example, look at this verse,
But if you uphold each other against him, truly God is his Protector, and Gabriel, and all the righteous among the believers, and furthermore, the angels, will back him up.(66:4)
How respectful it is concerning the Prophet (UWBP), and how compassionate towards the rights of his wives! This important concentration of forces is only to express compassionately its tremendous respect for the Prophet (UWBP) and the importance of the complaints of two weak beings and the observance of their rights.
Seventh Step
SEVENTH STEP: As with angels and fish, there are numerous different varieties of stars. Some are extremely small [^5] and some are extremely large. [^6] Everything that shines in the sky even is called a star. Thus, the stars of one sort the Glorious Creator and Beauteous Maker created are like the embossed decorations on the face of the delicate heavens, and the shining fruits of that tree, and the praising and extolling fishes of its seas; He made them the places of excursion and thousands of dwelling-places for the angels. And one sort of small star He made the means for driving off devils. Thus, these shooting stars fired to repulse satans may have three meanings:
[^5]:See, al-Daylamī, al-Musnad, ii, 190.
[^6]:See, Muslim, Salām, 124; Tirmidhī, Tafsīr al-Sūra 34:3; Abū Dā’ūd, Sunna, 18; Musnad, i, 218; Abū Ya’lā, al-Musnad, iv, 476; xiii, 137; Ibn Ḥibbān, al-Ṣaḥīḥ, xiii, 499.
The First: They are a sign and indication that the law of contest is also in force in the vastest sphere.
The Second: There are vigilant guards and obedient inhabitants in the heavens. The shooting stars are a proclamation and indication that there are divine forces found there who are displeased at the rebellion of evil earther-dwellers and their eavesdropping on them.