Heavens and earth joined, then parted

الرتق والفتق

Al-Anbiya 21:30 and Fussilat 41:11. Al-Tabari records several readings: heaven and earth were stuck together and then separated; or each was one layer and became seven; or the sky gave no rain and the earth no plants until both were 'opened'.

2 verses

Themes describe what a verse speaks about. They make no claim of scientific miracles. Pending scholarly review.

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    Sources: Tanzil (text, verbatim) · Quranic Arabic Corpus, © Kais Dukes, GNU GPL (morphology, syntax, word-by-word English, ontology) · Draft trees for 9:92 to 58: “Quranic” hybrid treebank, CC BY 4.0 · Translations: Pickthall (EN), Jalandhari (UR), via tanzil.net/trans · Themes: Quranpedia.net topics index (dump 2026-11-11) and classical tafsir citations · Indo-Pak text and font: DigitalKhatt (MIT, SIL OFL 1.1). Urdu word glosses are coming soon.