سورة النّبَإِ

Surah Al-Naba’ 78:7

The Important Anouncement · Verse 7 of 40

وَالْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًا

Abdul Mannan Omar

And the mountains as (a series of) pegs?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And the mountains as pegs?

Ahmed Ali

The mountains tent-pins?

12 more translations

Ali Unal

And the mountains as masts?

Daryabadi

And the mountains as stakes?

Faridul Haque

And the mountains as pegs?

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And the mountains as pegs?

Maulvi Sher Ali

And the mountains as pegs?

Muhammad Asad

and the mountains [its] pegs?

Muhammad Musin Khan

And the mountains as pegs?

Muhammad Pickthall

And the high hills bulwarks?

Muhammad Sarwar

and the mountains as pegs (to anchor the earth)?.

Muhammed ali Shakir

And the mountains as projections (thereon)?

Rashad Khalifa

And the mountains stabilizers?

Shabbir Ahmed

And the mountains as pegs?

Commentary 78:7 The expression “mountains are fixed with pegs” refers to some laws of physics in the cosmos. Apparently, here is a reference to the forces of gravitation…

وَالْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًا

78:7 The expression “mountains are fixed with pegs” refers to some laws of physics in the cosmos. Apparently, here is a reference to the forces of gravitation and other unknown forces interacting in the cosmos according to certain measures. Similar to the pegs of a tent, these forces maintain the “mountains” in their positions. It is because of these forces that the pre-lunar state of the shaking of the earth has ended.