If He willed, He could still the wind, and they would remain
إن يشأ يسكن الريح فيظللن [Ash-Shuraa 42:33]
they become
rawakid
رواكد
fixed, not moving
upon its surface
على ظهره
“meaning the surface of the sea”
Indeed in that are signs for everyone patient and grateful.
إن في ذلك لآيات لكل صبار شكور [Ibrahim 14:5]
among His signs. Then he said:
signs
لآيات
because the partiality is a part of the thing; if the thing is a thousand, its part may be two hundred or three hundred, and if the thing is two, the part is one. The ships are many.