Srinagar, July 15 -- Mountains have always stood before humanity as silent giants-majestic, mysterious, powerful, and deeply symbolic. Across cultures and languages, they appear in proverbs, poetry, moral teachings, and religious texts as symbols of strength, patience, endurance, and divine power. We speak of "standing like a mountain" when we refer to firmness, and we describe a great difficulty as "a mountain to climb." This shows that mountains are not merely physical structures of rock and soil; they are deeply rooted in human imagination, faith, and philosophy.

The Qur'an also invites human beings to reflect upon mountains as remarkable signs of creation. In several verses, mountains are mentioned in connection with the stability, b...