ﱹ ﱺ ﱻ ﱼ ﱽ ﱾ ﱿ ﲀ ﲁ ﲂ ﲃ ﲄ ﲅ ﲆ ﲇ ﲈ ﲉ ﲊ ﲋ
If We had sent down this Qur'an upon a mountain, you would have seen it humbled and coming apart from fear of Allah. And these examples We present to the people that perhaps they will give thought.
Tafsir
Verse range: 59:21
Then, after explaining these proofs, the Almighty exalted the status of the Qur'an by saying:
{ لو أنزلنا هاذا القرءان على جبل لرأيته خاشعا متصدعا من خشية الله }
"Had We sent down this Qur'an upon a mountain, you would have seen it humbled, split asunder out of fear of Allah."
The meaning is that if the mountain possessed intellect, as granted to you humans, and the Qur'an were revealed to it, it would have become humble, submissive, and cracked open from the awe of Allah.
Then He said:
{ وتلك الامثال نضربها للناس لعلهم يتفكرون }
"And these are the parables which We present to the people that they may reflect."
The purpose of mentioning this statement is to draw attention to the hardness of the hearts of these disbelievers and the coarseness of their nature. This is similar to His saying: { ثم قست قلوبكم من بعد ذلك فهي كالحجارة أو أشد قسوة } (The Cow, 2:74) [Then your hearts became hard after that, like stones or even harder].
Know that when He described the greatness of the Qur'an—and the greatness of the attribute follows the greatness of the described object—He followed that by explaining the greatness of Allah by saying:
{ هو الله الذى لا إلاه إلا هو عالم الغيب والشهادة هو الرحمان الرحيم }
"He is Allah, other than Whom there is no deity, the Knower of the unseen and the visible. He is the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful."
