Valley

Nor do they spend an expenditure, small or large, or cross a valley but that it is registered for them that Allāh may reward them for the best of what they were doing.

Our Lord, I have settled some of my descendants in an uncultivated valley near Your sacred House, our Lord, that they may establish prayer. So make hearts among the people incline toward them and provide for them from the fruits that they might be grateful.

Indeed, I am your Lord, so remove your sandals. Indeed, you are in the blessed valley of Ṭuwā.

Until, when they came upon the valley of the ants, an ant said, "O ants, enter your dwellings that you not be crushed by Solomon and his soldiers while they perceive not."

But when he came to it, he was called from the right side of the valley in a blessed spot - from the tree,¹ "O Moses, indeed I am Allāh, Lord of the worlds."

And when they saw it as a cloud approaching their valleys, they said, "This is a cloud bringing us rain!" Rather, it is that for which you were impatient:¹ a wind, within it a painful punishment,

Has there reached you the story of Moses? -

When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Ṭuwā,

Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with ʿAad -

[With] Iram¹ - who had lofty pillars,²

The likes of whom had never been created in the land?

And [with] Thamūd, who carved out the rocks in the valley?