Hadith 89

loneliness, nor lethargy, and there isn’t any place in the layers of the skies except and upon it there is an Angel performing Sajdah, or a striving servant, increasing upon the length of the obedience with their Lord-azwj in knowledge, and the honour of their Lord-azwj increases in their hearts the reverence’. And from it regarding the description of the earth and its spread upon the water – ‘He-azwj Compressed the earth upon stormy rough waves and the depths of the oceans shaking, it’s waves clashing with earth other, and high surges leaping upon one another, and emitting foam like the he-camel during its excitement. The tumult of the water was subdued by the weight of its load, and it’s agitation calmed when it was trodden by its chest, and it was humbled when it was grabbed by its shoulders. After its restlessness, it’s waves became tame, overpowered, and in the rule of humbleness, shackled, captive, and the earth calmed spreading out in the stormy depths of its water, was returned from the pride of its self-conceit, and its high position, and the highness of its nose (pride), and superiority of the water and the intrepidity of its flow. So, it praised after its penetration and settled after the tumult of its assault. When the agitation of the water had calmed from beneath its sides and the load of the high and lofty mountains upon its shoulders, He-azwj Flowed the springs of water from its high tops, and Distributed these in the steppes in its hands, and its depressions, and Moderated its movements with the mountain tops and its fixed rocks, and the ones smelling with the snouts. So it settled from the plains, with penetrations of the mountains in pieces of its surface. And He-azwj Made it (winds) to penetrate into the hollowness of its gills, and it’s riding upon the necks of the coasts of the lands and its germs. And He-azwj Cleared between the atmosphere and it and Returned the air as a breeze for its dwellers, and extracted its people upon the completeness of its conveniences. Then He-azwj did not Leave the barren tracts of the earth which it’s waters were deficient from saturating, nor could it find any means to the way of the rivers to reach it, until He-azwj Grew for it floating clouds to revive it’s dead and extract it’s vegetation. He-azwj Compiled its clouds after the separation of its small ones, and of varied thickness, until when the water had collected in it, and it’s lightning flashed in its palm, and it’s flicker did not sleep in the interior of its white clouds and the heavy ones of its clouds, He-azwj Sent heavy rains to it. It’s storm was brewing, and the southerly winds passed by it squeezing it and shedding its water like the she-camel’s milk flowing for its young ones. When the clouds had knelt down and thrown off what water it had been laden with, He‑azwj Extracted by it the vegetation of the earth, and from the herbage of the mountains. So, it was pleased with the adornment of its gardens and wonders with what it had been clothed with from the dress of its blossoms, and ornaments of what could