"Who made the earth for you a bed"—meaning: a spread-out surface and a place of rest—"and the sky a canopy" [over the earth].

Muhammad said: Everything that is elevated above the earth is called a canopy. The meaning is that He made it a ceiling, similar to His saying—Exalted is He: "And We made the sky a protected ceiling."

And His saying: "a bed"—meaning: He did not make it [in such a way] that one cannot remain stable upon it. "So do not attribute to Allah equals"—meaning: peers that you equate [with Him]—"while you know" that He created you, and created the heavens and the earth, and that they (the idols) do not create anything.