| " "There are seven earths | The inhabitants of this earth are a nation called Jilla, and they have no eyes, hands or feet but have wings like bats and die only of old age |
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| Each snake has fangs like tall palm trees, and if they were to strike the hugest mountain with their fangs it would be leveled to the ground | There dwells a nation called Tamis, whose food is their own flesh and whose drink is their own blood |
The fifth earth is called Maltham, wherein stones of sulphur hang around the necks of infidels.
23| When the fire is kindled the fuel is placed on their breasts, and the flames leap up onto their faces, as He hath said: The fire whose fuel is men and stones 2:24 , and Fire shall cover their faces 14:50 | The inhabitants thereof are a nation called Qays, who eat dirt and drink mothers' milk |
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| Another resumptive pronoun, like the Adam song | 8-9 Well, the Quran has a few words that hardly seem to occur elsewhere in Arabic literature, like sijjin, for example, and throughout history, Muslim exegetes have attempted to decipher such cryptic references by drawing from pre-Islamic traditions |
That said, Muslim scripture does state that there is a huge angel who dips his foot in and out of the sea to induce high and low tide, that genies sleep in our nostrils when we sleep and wee into our mouths when we yawn, and that a group of Israelites who broke the Sabbath were turned into apes and swine, so it's not completely out of character for Muslims to believe in extraordinary creatures whose surreal world is superimposed onto our own but with whom we can't interact and of whom no trace can be perceived by us except in prescribed ways.