“You see the mountains, thinking them firmly fixed, but they pass like the passing of clouds. The handiwork of Allah, who perfected all things.” surah an-naml 27:88

You think you’re standing still? You’re not.
You’re strapped to a globe flying through space at:

• 1,000 mph (Earth’s rotation)
• 67,000 mph (Orbit around the sun)
• 1.3 million mph (Solar system through the galaxy)

And you feel nothing.

Why? Because gravity pins you down, and the atmosphere moves with you. Everything—air, sky, ground, mountains—is part of the same motion. You don’t feel it because the system was built to hide it.

And that’s why this verse in the Glorious Qur’an hits like a knife:

It doesn’t say you’re moving. It says the mountains are.

Why? Because they’re the last thing you’d question. The most “permanent” object you can see.

But they’re moving.
Which means you are too.
And you don’t even know or notice.

Stillness by Design

“Have We not made the earth a resting place (firāshan),
and the sky a built structure (samā’an binā’an)?”
— Surah An-Naba 78:6–12

The Earth is made to feel like a bed—flat, stable, restful, “still.”

The sky is a built canopy. And what we now know is that this “canopy” (the atmosphere) moves with the Earth, thus locking you safely in, not noticing the earth’s many high-speed orbital movements. Gravity locks everything into the system. All perfectly set up to enable you have the seemingly still earth as a safe and habitable resting place, while it spins and zooms.

This isn’t chaos. It’s engineered calm.

Your Senses Are Not Reliable

“You see the mountains…”
“…thinking them firmly fixed…”
“…but they pass like clouds.”

The Quran doesn’t come at you with a lecture—it comes through your eyes. It lets your senses lead you into a trap, then shows you that what you trusted was false.

You thought you were still. You thought the mountains were solid.
You were wrong.

The Moment It Hit Me

When I first pondered this verse and looked up at skyscrapers, I felt dizzy.
Those towers, unmoving and massive, suddenly felt like props on a set hurtling through space. Me, standing still—yet zooming at over a million miles per hour. It cracked something.

It made me ask:

What’s the foundation I’m building on?

If motion is masked this well, what else am I blind to?

Fleeting is the word.
Permanence? That’s the illusion.

The Reality: What Else Are You Wrong About?

This verse isn’t just scientifically accurate.
It’s existentially aggressive.

It exposes a flaw in your entire perception of reality. If you can’t detect motion this massive, how much of your “certainty” is just packaging?

This verse doesn’t just describe the mountains.
It dismantles your sense of stillness, and with it, your idea of control and relevance.

Allahu Akbar! God is the Greatest!