Hadith 32

den for their scarcity. But, if a speaker were to say, ‘These are more (in number) than the people’, he would have spoken the truth. So, consider that with what you see in the deserts, and the mountains from the flocks of the antelopes, and the oxen, and the donkeys, and ibexes, and the deer, and other than that from the animals, and the types of predators from the lions, and the hyenas, and the wolves, and the tigers, and others, and variety of the vermin, and the insects, and the livestock of the earth. And similar to that are the flocks of the birds from the crows, and the pigeons, and the geese, and the shorebirds, and the doves, and predatorily birds altogether, and all of these, nothing is seen from them when they die, except the one after the one gets hunted or devoured by a predator. So, when they sense the death, they disappear in a hidden place and they are dying therein, and had it not been that the deserts would be filled up from these to the extent that it would spoil the smell of the air, and diseases and the plague would occur. Therefore, look at this which the people are ending up to, and understand it with the first example which had been struck for them (Qabeella burying Habeelas), how it has been Made to be a nature and burying among the animals and others, for the safety of the people from the harm which would occur upon them from the diseases and the mischief. Think, O Mufazzal regarding the acumen which has been Made to be in the animals for their interests with the natures and the subtle creation from Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic for them, lest anyone from Hisazwj creatures would be devoid from the Favour of the Majestic and Mighty, not by intellect and acumen. So, the deer eats the snake, and it gets thirsty with intense thirst, but it prevents from drinking the water fearing from spread of the poison in its body which would kill it, and it pauses upon the well and it is a thirsty effort, so it shrieks a loud shriek and does not drink from it, and if it were to drink, it would die immediately. Look at what is Made to be from the nature of these animals from the overwhelming thirst fearing from the harm in the drinking, and that is from what the intellectual human almost cannot grasp in himself. And the fox, when it lacks food and blows its belly until the bird reckons it is dead. But, when it falls upon it, it surprises it and leaps upon it and grabs it. Who assisted the fox who is speechless and the deliberateness with this trick, except the Oneazwj Who Guaranteed its sustenance for it from this, and it’s like? It is so that when the fox is weak from most of the predators which are stronger upon him, from acquiring the hunt, eyes with the plotting, and the acumen, and the trickery for its livelihood, and the dolphins seeking a prey of the bird, so its trickery in that would happen to be that it w