(30) “Have those who disbelieve not seen that the heavens and the earth were joined together, then We split them apart, and that We made every living thing from water? Will they not then believe?”

That is: Have these people who disbelieve in their Lord and deny that worship must be devoted sincerely to Him not considered the evidence that shows them, as plainly as direct observation, that He is the Lord—the Praiseworthy, the Generous, the One worthy of worship? They behold the sky and the earth and find them both closed up: the former contains neither cloud nor rain, while the latter is barren and lifeless, with no vegetation. We then opened them both up: the sky with rain and the earth with vegetation.

Is not the One who brought clouds into the sky after the air had been clear, without even a wisp of cloud; stored abundant water within them; then drove them toward a dead land whose reaches had grown dusty and whose water had dried up; and caused them to pour down rain upon it, whereupon the land quivered, stirred, swelled, and brought forth every delightful kind, diverse in species and manifold in benefit—[is that not] (1) proof that He is the Truth, that all besides Him is false, that He gives life to the dead, and that He is the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful? Hence He said: “Will they not then believe?” That is, with sound faith containing neither doubt nor polytheism.

Then He Most High enumerated the signs throughout the horizons, saying: