trees in the air, orderly water channels and veins, like the circulation of blood in veins, occur with the same ease and order and with perfect wisdom in those hard, deaf rocks under the earth. [^1] And like the way the branches of trees and plants spread in the air with ease encountering no obstacles, so too, at the divine commands the delicate veins of roots spread with the same ease in the rocks under the earth. The Qur’an indicates this and teaches an extensive truth with the verse, and by allusion says the following to the hard-hearted:

[^1]:Yes, it is only fitting that the Qur’an should explain the three important duties of the rock strata, the foundation stone of the majestic travelling palace known as the earth, which are entrusted to it by the All-Glorious Creator. Their First Duty: Just as earth acts as a mother to plants and raises them through dominical power, so through divine power, the rocks act as a nurse to the earth and raise it. Their Second Duty: They serve the orderly circulation of waters in the body of the earth, like the circulation of the blood. Their Third Duty: This is to act as treasurer to the rising and continuous flow with regular balance of the springs and rivers, sources and streams. Indeed, the evidences of divine unity which the rocks make flow with all their strength in mouthfuls in the form of the water of life, they write and sprinkle over the face of the earth.

O Children of Israel and Sons of Adam! What sort of heart do you bear within your weakness and impotence so that with its hardness it resists the command of such a One? Whereas how perfectly and obediently the huge strata of hard rocks carry out their delicate duties in the darkness before His commands. They display no disobedience. Indeed, those rocks act as treasurers for the water of life and other means of life of all the living creatures above the earth, and are the means for their division and distribution. They do this with such wisdom and justice that they are soft like wax or air in the hand of power of the All-Wise One of Glory; offering no resistance, they prostrate before His mighty power. For just like well-ordered creatures and wise, gracious divine disposals occur on top of the earth, which we observe, the same occur beneath it. Indeed, divine wisdom and favour are manifested there more wondrously and strangely in regard to wisdom and order. See how like wax those hard, unfeeling mighty rocks display a softness towards the creational commands, and how they offer no resistance or hardness to the delicate waters, the fine roots, and silken veins, which are divine officials. As though like a lover, the rock’s heart melts at the touch of those delicate, beautiful things and becomes earth in their path.

And, with,

And, behold, there are some that fall down for awe of God,

the Qur’an shows the tip of a vast truth which is like this: like in the event of Moses asking for the vision of God and the famous mountain crumbling