Then he informed that they were like these in safety from the punishment and in heedlessness of what was intended for them. Although they were more severe than them. He said: 'And they were carving.' And 'carving' means removing part after part from the body, in a manner of smoothing. 'From the mountains,' which we previously established that we made them as mountains. 'Secure homes' upon them from collapse, and by them from the occurrence of what is disliked; not like your homes which have no permanence even at the slightest degree.