Re: What does ‘amanah’ means?
well what i read, for this verse some commentators have taken it in metaphorical / figurative sense (tamseel), like noble Quran has said elsewhere by way of comparison; “If had we sent down this Quran to a mountain, you would have seen it humbled, burst apart out of awe of Allah” (AL-Hashr 59:21). It is obvious that this example has been given as a matter of supposition-not that it was really revealed on a mountain.
But majority of Muslim scholars said it is not correct because in the verse of Surah Al-Hashr, Quran has itself made it clear that it is just a hypothetical statement. However verse of Surah Al-ahzaab is not hypothetical as it is in a descriptive style and as Allah said in Quran; “And there is not a single thing that does not extol His purity and Praise” (Al-Isra 17:44). So it is obvious that knowing Allah, realizing that he is a creator is something not possible without knowledge and consciousness. This verse proves that knowledge and consciousness do exist in all elements of creation and it is not rationally impossible that Allah could bestow on the heavens and the earth and the mountains the functional ability to verbalize and speak.