Mountains in Motion
Modern Discovery
Mountains were once thought to be fixed and immovable. Modern geology, through plate tectonics, has proven that they are constantly shifting, though very slowly.
Key Scientific Facts
Tectonic plates move 1–10 cm per year.
This movement causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and the rise of mountain ranges.
Qur’ānic Revelation
"You see the mountains and think they are firmly fixed, but they are moving away just like the clouds move. ˹That is˺ the design of Allāh, Who has perfected everything. Surely He is All-Aware of what you do.
(Qur’ān 27:88)
The Qur’ān described mountains as ‘moving just like clouds’ more than 1,400 years ago — a reality that modern science only discovered in the last century.
Have they not travelled throughout the land to see what was the end of those who were ˹destroyed˺ before them?
[Qur’an 40:82]
