Tafseer of The Emissaries · Al-Mursalaat · 77:27
And We placed therein lofty, firmly set mountains and have given you to drink sweet water.
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And His word: ( وَجَعَلْنَا فِيهَا رَوَاسِيَ شَامِخَاتٍ ) "and We placed therein firmly anchored, towering mountains". The Exalted, whose mention is high, says: and We placed in the earth mountains that are firmly fixed therein, lofty and towering high.
As Bishr related to us, he said: Yazīd related to us, he said: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda: ( وَجَعَلْنَا فِيهَا رَوَاسِيَ شَامِخَاتٍ ) "and We placed therein firmly anchored, towering mountains", he means the mountains.
ʿAlī related to me, he said: Abū Ṣāliḥ related to us, he said: Muʿāwiya related to me, on the authority of ʿAlī, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning His word: ( رَوَاسِيَ شَامِخَاتٍ ) "firmly anchored, towering mountains", he says: high-towering mountains.
And His word: ( وَأَسْقَيْنَاكُمْ مَاءً فُرَاتًا ) "and We gave you sweet water to drink". He says: and We gave you sweet, pleasant water to drink.
And in accordance with what we have said about that, the exegetes have spoken.
* Mention of who said that:
ʿAlī related to me, he said: Abū Ṣāliḥ related to us, he said: Muʿāwiya related to me, on the authority of ʿAlī, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās: ( وَأَسْقَيْنَاكُمْ مَاءً فُرَاتًا ) "and We gave you sweet water to drink", he says: pleasant.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to me, he said: Abū ʿĀṣim related to me, he said: ʿĪsā related to us; and al-Ḥārith related to me, he said: al-Ḥasan related to us, he said: Waraqāʾ related to us, both on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid, concerning his word: ( مَاءً فُرَاتًا ) "sweet water", he said: pleasant.
Bishr related to us, he said: Yazīd related to us, he said: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda: ( وَأَسْقَيْنَاكُمْ مَاءً فُرَاتًا ) "and We gave you sweet water to drink": that is, pleasant water.
Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Qazzāz related to us, he said: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, on the authority of Shabīb, on the authority of ʿIkrima, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās: ( وَأَسْقَيْنَاكُمْ مَاءً فُرَاتًا ) "and We gave you sweet water to drink", he said: from four rivers: the Sayḥān, the Jayḥān, the Nile, and the Euphrates. And all the water that the son of Adam drinks comes from these rivers, and they flow forth from beneath a rock at Jerusalem. As for the Sayḥān, it is at Balkh; as for the Jayḥān, it is the Tigris; as for the Euphrates, it is the Euphrates of Kūfa; and as for the Nile, it is in Egypt.
