The Meaning of the Saying of Allah the Exalted: "And the sky with the return. And the earth with the crack."

The Shaykh : The sky here, that which is above, is undoubtedly not the preserved sky. The sky is that which is above, because the return is the rain, and what brings the rain is the clouds. The clouds are not the preserved sky, but rather that which is above. The sky with the return and the earth with the crack: the crack is the splitting that occurs when rain falls on the earth. The grain grows in the belly of the earth, then it swells, and at that time the earth cracks. So Allah the Exalted swore by the rain, by which the earth has life, and by the earth that accepted this rain and caused to grow what? That is, the Qur'an. Because with the rain is the life of the earth, because with the rain is the life of the earth, and with the Qur'an is the life of the hearts, as He the Exalted said: