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{{Quote|Neuwirth, Angelika. <i>The Qur'an: Text and Commentary, Volume 2.1: Early Middle Meccan Suras: The New Elect (p. 162).</i> Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.|Not only is this metonymy immediately understandable thanks to the early ‘excuse’ in Q 79:32: wa-l-jibāla arsāhā (“and established the mountains firmly”), it is also already prepared in the poetry (see Zuhayr 13:101: a-lā lā arā ʿalā l-hawādithi bāqiyan wa-lā khālidan illā l-jibāla l-rawāsiyā, “I see nothing that can withstand the processes or is eternal but the established mountains”; see SEAP, 516). Because it is based on the image of the anchor throwing, cf. Noah’s Ark Q 11:41: wa-qāla rkabū fīhā bi-smi llāhi majrāhā wa-mursāhā (“He said: ‘Embark in it, in the name of God make it journey and drop anchor.’”). The idea of the mountains as supporting pillars on which the tent of Heaven rests can already be found in the Psalms, for example Ps 104, which is reflected in the Qurʾan in Q 78 (see HC 1, 274–289).}} | |||
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