Quran Universe
31:10

خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ بِغَيۡرِ عَمَدٖ تَرَوۡنَهَاۖ وَأَلۡقَىٰ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ رَوَٰسِيَ أَن تَمِيدَ بِكُمۡ وَبَثَّ فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ دَآبَّةٖۚ وَأَنزَلۡنَا مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءٗ فَأَنۢبَتۡنَا فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ زَوۡجٖ كَرِيمٍ

Khalaqa alssamawati bighayri AAamadin tarawnaha waalqa fee alardi rawasiya an tameeda bikum wabaththa feeha min kulli dabbatin waanzalna mina alssamai maan faanbatna feeha min kulli zawjin kareemin

He created the heavens without pillars that you see and has cast into the earth firmly set mountains, lest it should shift with you, and dispersed therein from every creature. And We sent down rain from the sky and made grow therein [plants] of every noble kind.

Word by word
  1. خَلَقَHe created
  2. ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِthe heavens
  3. بِغَيۡرِwithout
  4. عَمَدٖpillars
  5. تَرَوۡنَهَاۖthat you see
  6. وَأَلۡقَىٰand has cast
  7. فِيin
  8. ٱلۡأَرۡضِthe earth
  9. رَوَٰسِيَfirm mountains
  10. أَنlest
  11. تَمِيدَit (might) shake
  12. بِكُمۡwith you
  13. وَبَثَّand He dispersed
  14. فِيهَاin it
  15. مِنfrom
  16. كُلِّevery
  17. دَآبَّةٖۚcreature
  18. وَأَنزَلۡنَاAnd We sent down
  19. مِنَfrom
  20. ٱلسَّمَآءِthe sky
  21. مَآءٗwater
  22. فَأَنۢبَتۡنَاthen We caused to grow
  23. فِيهَاtherein
  24. مِنof
  25. كُلِّevery
  26. زَوۡجٖkind
  27. كَرِيمٍnoble
Luqman · 31:10Makkah

Sky without pillars, steady mountains, rain and growing life.

Signs of the Creator and Provider all around you

What He made
heavensno pillars at all
mountainskeep the earth steady
every creaturekinds only He knows
rain and plantsevery goodly kind
What He is
Creatormade it all
and also
Providerkeeps feeding it

Ibn Kathir says the heavens have no pillars, visible or invisible. He notes that when Allah reminds us He is the Creator, He also reminds us He is the Provider. The Makkans were asked to look with open eyes at what was around them.

The commute home under a wide evening sky. The rain on the bus window. The fruit stall on the corner, every colour there. You walk past a hundred signs a day with your eyes on a screen.

The sky and rain are just background to my day.

Everything around me is made and provided, and it points to Him.

Try this

Step outside once today and look up at the sky for a full minute.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir

He has created the heavens without any pillars that you see, and has set on the earth firm mountains lest it should shake with you. And He has scattered therein moving creatures of all kinds. And We send down water from the sky, and We cause (plants) of every goodly kind to grow therein in pairs (10)This is the creation of Allah. So, show Me that which those besides Him have created. Nay, the wrongdoers are in plain error (11)

Proofs of Tawhid

Thus Allah explains His mighty power in creating the heavens and the earth, and everything that is within them and between them. He says:

خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ بِغَيْرِ عَمَدٍ

(He has created the heavens without any pillars) Al-Hasan and Qatadah said, "It does not have any pillars, visible or invisible."

وَأَلْقَىٰ فِي الْأَرْضِ رَوَاسِيَ

(and has set on the earth firm mountains) means, the mountains which stabilize and lend weight to the earth, lest it should shake with its water. Allah says:

 أَنْ تَمِيدَ بِكُمْ

(lest it should shake with you.)

وَبَثَّ فِيهَا مِنْ كُلِّ دَابَّةٍ

(And He has scattered therein moving creatures of all kinds) means, He has placed throughout it all kinds of animals, the total number of whose kinds and colors is known to no one except the One Who created them. When Allah tells us that He is the Creator, He also reminds us that He is the Provider, as He says:

وَأَنْزَلْنَا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَنْبَتْنَا فِيهَا مِنْ كُلِّ زَوْجٍ كَرِيمٍ 

(And We send down water from the sky, and We cause (plants) of every goodly kind to grow therein in pairs,) meaning, every kind of good produce in pairs, i.e., they are beautiful to look at. Ash-Sha'bi said: "People are also produce of the earth, so whoever enters Paradise is goodly and whoever enters Hell is vile."

هَٰذَا خَلْقُ اللَّهِ

(This is the creation of Allah.) means, all that Allah has mentioned here of the creation of the heavens and earth and everything in between stems from His power of creation and control alone, and He has no partner or associate in that, Allah says:

فَأَرُونِي مَاذَا خَلَقَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ دُونِهِ

(So, show Me that which those besides Him have created.) those idols and rivals whom you worship and call upon.

بَلِ الظَّالِمُونَ 

(Nay, the wrongdoers) means the idolators who associate others in worship with Allah

فِي ضَلَالٍ

(in error) means, they are ignorant and blind.

مُبِينٍ

(plain) means, it is clear and obvious, and not at all hidden.