Tafseer of The Ant · An-Naml · 27:61
Is He [not best] who made the earth a stable ground and placed within it rivers and made for it firmly set mountains and placed between the two seas a barrier? Is there a deity with Allah? [No], but most of them do not know.
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Allah, exalted be His remembrance, says: Is the worship of those whom you assign as partners to your Lord, O people — while it brings neither harm nor benefit — better, or He Who has made the earth a dwelling place for you upon which you find rest, so that it does not move with you? وَجَعَلَ (and Who has made) for you خِلالَهَا أَنْهَارًا (rivers amid it): he says: rivers within it; وَجَعَلَ لَهَا رَوَاسِيَ (and Who has made for it firm mountains): these are the fixed, steadfast mountains; وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ حَاجِزًا (and Who has made a barrier between the two seas) — between the fresh water and the salt water — so that the one would not spoil the other; أَإِلَهٌ مَعَ اللَّهِ (Is there a god alongside Allah?) — alongside Him Who has done all this, that you should equate it with Him in your worship?
And His saying: بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لا يَعْلَمُونَ (but most of them do not know): Allah, exalted be His remembrance, says: but most of these polytheists do not know the extent of Allah's greatness, nor what harms them in assigning partners to Allah in worship, nor what benefits them in devoting themselves to Allah alone as the sole Deity, in sincerely dedicating worship to Him, and in being free of every object of worship apart from Him.
