Commentary on the verse: “And walk not on the earth with conceit and arrogance. Verily, you can neither rend nor penetrate the earth, nor can you attain a stature like the mountains in height” [al-Isra’ 17:37]
Question

                Allah says in surah isra that man will never reach the height of mountains

I am little confused as man has reached high mountains like mount Everest

Please explain as i love the quran

Question 2

In the quran man does not know what is in the womb
I want to know that we can tell now through ultra sound if the baby is girl boy please explain

I love the quran and i do not have any doubts in the holybook whats so ever but these verse are pondering in my mind please explain

Also when allah says about the two seas theres is barrier which sea is and has this been located .
Praise be to Allah.
	Firstly:

	Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, says (interpretation 
	of the meaning):

	“And walk not on the earth with 
	conceit and arrogance. Verily, you can neither rend nor penetrate the earth, 
	nor can you attain a stature like the mountains in height”
	

	[al-Isra’ 17:37].

	Al-Qurtubi (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

	“nor can you attain a stature 
	like the mountains in height” 
	i.e., you can never match the mountains in your height or in your arrogance. 
	End quote.

	Tafseer al-Qurtubi 
	(10/261).

	Ash-Shawkaani (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

	That is, the power you have will never enable you to equal 
	the mountains in height, to the extent that you will have a huge body that 
	would make you arrogant and conceited. And you have no power to penetrate 
	the earth when walking upon it, and your body is not so huge that it could 
	reach the height of the mountains. So what is prompting you to behave as you 
	do? End quote.

	Fath al-Qadeer 
	(3/271)

	Ash-Shinqeeti (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

	That is, you, O arrogant and conceited one, are weak and 
	insignificant, helpless, confined between two inanimate objects. You are 
	incapable of having any impact on either of them, for you cannot have any 
	impact on the earth beneath your feet, so that you could penetrate it by the 
	impact of your stepping on it, and you cannot match in height the mountains 
	that tower above you. So appreciate your status and do not be arrogant, and 
	do not walk on the earth with conceit. End quote.

	Adwa’ al-Bayaan 
	(3/156)

	What is meant by the words “nor 
	can you attain a stature like the mountains in height” 
	is: you, O arrogant one, in your arrogance, conceit and pride, can never 
	match the mountains in height and grandeur. If Allah so willed, He would 
	cause the earth to swallow you up, and you would be swallowed by it, so how 
	can you be so arrogant?

	It does not mean: you can never scale the heights of the 
	mountains or ascend them. People have been reaching the summits of mountains 
	for a very long time, and there is nothing strange about that, for it is not 
	beyond them. The meaning of the verse has nothing to do with that, either 
	explicitly or implicitly.

	Secondly:

	Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the 
	meaning):

	“Verily, Allah! With Him (Alone) 
	is the knowledge of the Hour, He sends down the rain, and knows that which 
	is in the wombs. No person knows what he will earn tomorrow, and no person 
	knows in what land he will die. Verily, Allah is All-Knower, All-Aware (of 
	things)”

	[Luqmaan 31:34].

	The words “and knows that 
	which is in the wombs” refer to 
	perfect knowledge of the foetus before it is created: how long he will 
	remain in the mother’s womb, his life, his deeds, his provision, whether he 
	will be blessed or doomed, whether he will be male or female, and so on.

	However, after it is created, knowledge of whether it is male 
	or female is no longer knowledge of the absolute unseen (that is known only 
	to Allah), because once it has been shaped and created, that comes under the 
	heading of knowledge of what is seen, except that it remains hidden beneath 
	the three layers of darkness which, if they are penetrated, it becomes 
	known. Hence it is possible to find out the gender of the foetus by means of 
	ultrasound, which penetrates these layers of darkness.

	See also the answers to questions no. 
	12368 and 213625.

	Knowing the gender of the foetus after it has been created in 
	its mother’s womb does not come under the heading of knowledge of the unseen 
	that is only for Allah.

	Modern science that is able to find out the gender of the 
	foetus after it has been created in its mother’s womb is not able to find 
	out anything else about it, such as its life, its death, its deeds, its 
	provision and whether it is doomed or blessed.

	Thirdly:

	With regard to the verse in which Allah, may He be exalted, 
	says (interpretation of the meaning):

	“Is not He (better than your 
	gods) Who has made the earth as a fixed abode, and has placed rivers in its 
	midst, and has placed firm mountains therein, and has set a barrier between 
	the two seas (of salt and sweet water)”

	[an-Naml 27:61],

	we have discussed the meaning of these words in fatwa no.
	223643.

	And Allah knows best.