لِّتَسۡلُكُواْ مِنۡهَا سُبُلٗا فِجَاجٗا

That you may follow therein roads of passage.'"

أَلَمۡ نَجۡعَلِ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ كِفَاتًا

Have We not made the earth a container

أَحۡيَآءٗ وَأَمۡوَٰتٗا

Of the living and the dead?

وَجَعَلۡنَا فِيهَا رَوَٰسِيَ شَٰمِخَٰتٖ وَأَسۡقَيۡنَٰكُم مَّآءٗ فُرَاتٗا

And We placed therein lofty, firmly set mountains and have given you to drink sweet water.

أَلَمۡ نَجۡعَلِ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ مِهَٰدٗا

Have We not made the earth a resting place?

وَٱلۡجِبَالَ أَوۡتَادٗا

And the mountains as stakes?[1]

ثُمَّ شَقَقۡنَا ٱلۡأَرۡضَ شَقّٗا

Then We broke open the earth, splitting [it with sprouts],

فَأَنۢبَتۡنَا فِيهَا حَبّٗا

And caused to grow within it grain

وَعِنَبٗا وَقَضۡبٗا

And grapes and herbage

وَزَيۡتُونٗا وَنَخۡلٗا

And olive and palm trees

وَحَدَآئِقَ غُلۡبٗا

And gardens of dense shrubbery

وَفَٰكِهَةٗ وَأَبّٗا

And fruit and grass –

مَّتَٰعٗا لَّكُمۡ وَلِأَنۡعَٰمِكُمۡ

[As] enjoyment [i.e., provision] for you and your grazing livestock.

وَإِلَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ كَيۡفَ سُطِحَتۡ

And at the earth - how it is spread out?