Landscapes and physical structures
Verses describing physical landscapes, vegetation, and structures on earth, in the sky, and in paradise.
- 11
- verses
- 11
- Meccan
- 0
- Medinan
- 0.90
- cohesion
Cohesion is how alike these verses are to the group’s centre, from 0 to 1. This is on the loose side, so the group holds together less tightly than most.
The verses
Closest to the group’s centre first.
وَٱلَّذِىٓ أَخْرَجَ ٱلْمَرْعَىٰ
And who brings out the pasture
أَتَبْنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةً تَعْبَثُونَ
Do you construct on every elevation a sign, amusing yourselves,
فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ
In an elevated garden,
فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ
In an elevated garden,
وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ
And at the sky - how it is raised?
وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ
And at the earth - how it is spread out?
وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ
And at the mountains - how they are erected?
ءَأَنتُمْ تَزْرَعُونَهُۥٓ أَمْ نَحْنُ ٱلزَّٰرِعُونَ
Is it you who makes it grow, or are We the grower?
وَزُرُوعٍ وَمَقَامٍ كَرِيمٍ
And crops and noble sites
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحُطَمَةُ
And what can make you know what is the Crusher?
فِى رَقٍّ مَّنشُورٍ
In parchment spread open
Where it falls
These verses across the book in reading order. Most of them sit in Al-Ghaashiya.
A histogram of where this topic’s verses fall across the book in reading order.
How it sounds
Measured against the whole book, so the difference is what matters.
how strongly mercy sounds
how strongly judgment sounds
how much it instructs rather than describes
how much it points beyond this life
how positive the verse feels
how charged the language is
The pale line in each bar is the whole book’s average for that channel.
Next to this
The groups sitting closest to this one in meaning.