And when His informing about what indicated to it, which is the sky, was a sign of the earth, because it is more perfect than it and more noble, as it is to the earth in the position of the male to the female. And the reaction sometimes may suggest that this occurs without an agent. He explicitly stated the indication of the earth, expressing it in the passive form, indicating that everything is by His action, and that this is easy for Him. So he said, informing about the splitting of the lands as well, to combine between the terrifying and the alarming with the scarce: 'And when the seas' that are scattered in the earth, and they are a controlling factor for it, in the most complete control for the benefit of the servants due to their abundance, 'were burst forth,' meaning a great bursting by the removal of what was between them from the barriers that hindered. And Al-Rabi' said: 'By its overflowing and the exiting of its water beyond its limits, some of it mixed with some of its salt and its fresh, so it became one sea. Thus, the whole earth became water, and there was no sky and no earth. So where is the escape?.