Hadith 32

lose it? And it does not find it gathered deliberately, but it attains it by the movement and the seeking. And, similar to that is the whole of creation. So, the Glorious is the Oneazwj Who Determined the sustenance, how is Hisazwj Strength? Heazwj has not Made from what Heazwj has not Determined upon it, When Heazwj Made for the people, a need to it, and did not Made it a waste, and it can be attained with ease, what if there was no interest in that. If it had count (food) gathered, prepared, the animals would have fluctuated upon it, and not moved (from it) until they slept and be destroyed. And the people as well, being with the free time, are coming to the peak of evil and the wicked until the corruption abound and the immoralities appear. Didn’t Iasws let you know what food there is for these types from the birds which do not come out except at night, like the owl, and the masked owl, and the bat? ’
I said, ‘No, my Masterasws! ’
Heasws said: ‘Their livelihood is from a variety scattered in the air, from the mosquitoes, and the butterflies, and it’s like the grasshopper, and the dragonflies, and that is because these varieties are sent in the air and no place is empty from these. And consider that when you place a lantern at night or a roof, or a courtyard of a house, a lot of these would gather to it. From where do all of that come from, except from nearby? So, if a speaker says, ‘They come from the desert and the prairies’, it would be said to him, ‘How can they meet up at that very moment from a remote place? And how can they see a lantern in a house from that distance, perilous (dying for) with the circling, so it aims to it? ’
Along with that is that these can been seen altered to the lantern from nearby, so that evidence upon that these are scattered in every place from the air. These types of the birds seek them when they come out and live by it. Look at how is the aspect of the sustenance for these birds which do not come out except at night, from these varieties scattered in the air, and recognise along with that, the meaning in the creation of these scattered varieties which perhaps a thinker would think that it is an extra, there being no meaning for it. Creation of the bat is a wondrous creation between the birds, and with the four is closer, and that is because it is with two protruding ears, and teeth and furs, and it begets children, and breastfeeds, and urinates, and walks when it walks upon four. And all this is opposite to the attributes of the bird. Then it, as well, is from what comes out at night and feeds from what flies in the air, from the butterflies and what resembles it. And the speakers have said, ‘There is no food for the bat, and that its feed is from the gentle breeze alone’. And that is invalid and false from two aspects – one of that is the excretion what comes out from it from the ex