Replace the word Sky with Man, and Earth with Woman...
In Surah Shams (91), Allah took an Oath by the Sky (samaa') and the Earth;
وَالسَّمَاءِ وَمَا بَنَاهَا . وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا طَحَاهَا
And [by] the sky and He who constructed it. And [by] the earth and He who spread it out.
(surah ash-Shams 91: 5-6)
In this surah [al Layl (92)], Allah swears by the One who made the Male and Female;
وَمَا خَلَقَ الذَّكَرَ وَالْأُنثَىٰ
And [by] He who created the male and female,
(surah al Layl 92:3)
The Similarities in their Relationship with each other:
Allah is making a parallel and comparison between the sky and earth, just like He is making a parallel between the male and the female.
The sky and Earth are different in their characteristics - but they work together to produce vegetation, fruits and plants of benefit - for life to continue.
Similarly, the male and female are different in their characteristics - but they work together to produce children - for life to continue.
Impregnation:
The sky sends down water, which penetrates through the Earth and impregnates it.
The liquid water then penetrates the seed - giving it life so it grows gradually, and finally the seed is born - coming out of the mother Earth. This newborn plant then continues to grow healthily until it reaches its peak age. This plant then either benefits humanity, or it does not.
Its seeds spread for future generations to be born.
Then as time passes - it gradually withers away, becomes wrinkly, and dies.
Now Replace the wordPlant with Human in the above Paragraph. And replace the word Sky with father, and Earth with Mother.
Do you notice similarities between the world around you, and your own self?
And among His Signs (in this), that you see the earth barren and still, but when We send down water (rain) to it, it is stirred to life and growth (of vegetations).
Surely, He Who gives it life, surely, (He) is Able to give life to the dead (on the Day of Resurrection). Indeed! He is Able to do all things.
Arab idiom: If someone is having a really really hard time, the arabs would say to such a person:huwat ummuhu - his mother fell off a cliff and dived into a deep cannion (and died). That's how depressed this person looks.
Allah twisted the sequence order of this Arab idiom and made a new and more deeper meaning by saying;
فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ
Ummuhu hawiyah; His mother is the deep cannion in hell.
فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ
Ummuhu [his Mother] = Mother = Hell is his Mother (ummuhu hawiyah).
A child runs towards his mother.
Who wants to run towards the hellfire? Nobody. But hell is now there mother - who there body will fall to at speed.
A mother wraps herself around her child, to protect it, and she doesn't let it go. And when the mother is carrying the baby in pregnancy, the baby is protected inside of her and it cannot come out of her.
The person is trapped in this mother of a hell, who holds him tightly, who does not let him escape her grip.
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