Tafsir for verse: 55:24
وَلَهُ ٱلۡجَوَارِ ٱلۡمُنشَـَٔاتُ فِي ٱلۡبَحۡرِ كَٱلۡأَعۡلَٰمِ ٢٤ ﴿24
24And His are the sailing ships raised up in the sea like mountains.
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Commentary

And when He, glorified and exalted is He, had mentioned what comes out of it with the water of the sky, He mentioned what moves upon it in the air. He indicated by the precedence of the neighbor that the one moving in the ship has no control over it. If control appears to him, it is due to his weakness, like there is no control at all. He said: "And to Him," meaning: not to others. So do not be deceived by the apparent causes, so that you stop with them and attribute something of that to them, just as the people of deception did with the witness, who are the dullest of the people of the earth in intellect and the most insignificant in status. They spoke of unity and oneness. "The ships," meaning: the large and small ships, empty and laden. And when the life of everything is its existence in the state of its perfection, and the ships are built from gathered wood and are connected until they become in a form that accepts great benefits, and they are nurtured by that gathering just as plants and animals are nurtured, and they rise upon the sea and their sails are raised, and they occur in the sea after they were hidden by the mountains of waves. He, the Most High, said: "The created ones" from 'nasha' - when it comes to life and grows, and the cloud: it has risen. The origin of 'nashe' is everything that occurs at night and begins. The meaning of the reading of Hamzah and Abu Bakr with the breaking of the sheen is that it raises its sail due to its holding back from sinking and is a creator for movement. The meaning of the reading of the others is that the creator created it and sent it and raised its sail. And when it is with its being high above the water, submerged in it, while it has nothing of itself except sinking and diving, He said: "In the sea." And when it is seen from a distance like mountains on the surface of the water, He said: "Like flags," meaning: like tall mountains.

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