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More typically, a verb such as صَارَ would be used for "becomes", though Lane's Lexicon states that عاد can be a synonym for صَارَ and gives as an example وَدِدْتُ أَنَّ هٰذَا اللَّبَنَ يَعُودُ قَطِرَانًا (I wish that this milk would become tar).<ref>ayn-waw-dal عود - [https://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume5/00000473.pdf Lane's Lexicon p. 2188]</ref> | More typically, a verb such as صَارَ would be used for "becomes", though Lane's Lexicon states that عاد can be a synonym for صَارَ and gives as an example وَدِدْتُ أَنَّ هٰذَا اللَّبَنَ يَعُودُ قَطِرَانًا (I wish that this milk would become tar).<ref>ayn-waw-dal عود - [https://www.studyquran.org/LaneLexicon/Volume5/00000473.pdf Lane's Lexicon p. 2188]</ref> | ||
Other critics respond that even if the meaning here is "returns to meadows and rivers", Arabia throughout recorded history has had fertile valleys and productive land | Other critics respond that even if the meaning here is "returns to meadows and rivers", Arabia throughout recorded history has had fertile valleys and productive land.<ref>See for example Strabo, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/16D%2A.html ''The Geography'' Book XVI, Chapter 4], 1st Century BCE</ref> The hadith may represent an elaboration of pre-Islamic folk tales. Al-Tabari records a tradition that centuries earlier, the Yamāmah region of central Arabia "was a most fertile and highly cultivated land, a land most prosperous, with a variety of fruit, wondrous orchards, and tall castles."<ref>Al-Tabari (transl. Moshe Perlmann) ''The History of al-Tabari: Volume IV The Ancient Kingdoms'', Suny Press, p. 151</ref> | ||
A few hadiths shed further light on this interpretation, implying that it would likely mean merely a return to the mythological state of the world at the time of Adam rather than any miraculous knowledge of prehistory. | A few hadiths shed further light on this interpretation, implying that it would likely mean merely a return to the mythological state of the world at the time of Adam rather than any miraculous knowledge of prehistory. | ||