SINAI

Mount, an-Nisa' 4:154; Maryam 19:52; Ta Ha 20:80; al-Mu'minun 23:20; al-Qasas 28:44,46; at-Tur 52:1; at-Tin 95:2

- inverted over Children of Israel, al-Baqarah 2:63,93; al-A`raf 7:171. ``I covered you over with the mountain like a lid.'' (Jewish tractate "Abodah Zarah", chapter II.2, quoted by Abdiya Akbar Abdul-Haqq) ``These words teach us that the Holy One, blessed be He, inverted the mountain above them like a pot and said to them, 'If ye receive the Law, well: but if not, there shall be your grave.'" (Sabbath, vol 88:1, quoted by Abdiya Akbar Abdul-Haqq)

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