Hadith 99

here is no dweller for Him-azwj to be comforted with, nor lonely at missing him. He-azwj Grew the creation with a growing, and Initiated with an initiation without reflecting it’s terms nor any experience to benefit (from), nor any occurrence of movement, nor self-ambition in which the states of the things would be restless to their timings, and He‑azwj Compiled its variations and Determined their properties, and Necessitated their features, being a Knower of these before Initiating them, and Encompassing their limitations and their confines, Recognising their propensities and their intricacies. Then the Glorious Created the openings of the atmospheres and split the firmaments and strata of the winds, He-azwj Flowed in it the tumultuous water accumulating it’s sludge, carried by a stormy wind and violent destabilisation. He-azwj Commanded these with returning it and Caused it to overcome upon its intensity, and Paired the air upon it’s limit furiously from beneath it, and the water was gushing from above it. Then the Glorious Created a wind, Stopped it’s movement, and Perpetuated it’s position, and stormy was its flowing, and distant was its spread. He-azwj Commanded it to Raise its blue waters and intensify the waves of the oceans. So, it churned the churning of curd and Pushed it fiercely into the firmament, Returning its front to its back, and the stationary to its flowing part until its level was raised. He-azwj Threw scum into its heaps and Raised it up into a torn and extensive atmosphere. He-azwj Evened out seven skies from it, Makings their lower ones as blind waves and their upper ones as protective ceilings, and a raised edifice without any pillar to support them nor any nails to systemise them. Then He-azwj Adorned them with an adornment of the stars and the illumination of the meteors. He-azwj Flowed therein a shining lamp and a radiant moon in a rotating orbit and moving ceiling and circling planets. Then He-azwj Split what is between the upper skies and Filled these with classes of His‑azwj Angels. From them are ones in performing Sajdah, not performing ruk’u; and ones performing ruk’u nor standing up; and ones in rows not moving; and one glorifying, not getting tired, not being overcome by the sleep of the eyes, nor errors of the minds, nor sluggishness of the bodies, nor heedlessness of the forgetfulness. And from them are trustees upon His-azwj revelation and the tongues to His-azwj Rasool‑saww, and they come and go with His-azwj Decrees and His-azwj Commands; and from them are the protectors of His-azwj servants and guards of the gates of His-azwj Gardens. And from them are ones whose feet are fixed in the lowest of the earths, and their necks are protruding from the upper-most sky, and their limbs are outside from the outskirts and their shoulders are appropriate for the columns of the Throne, lowering their sights below them, spreading out their wings under it. There are struck between them and the ones besides them, veils of Honour and screens of Power. They are not imagining their Lord-azwj with the imaging, nor are they flowing upon Him‑azwj descriptions of the made (created beings), nor are they limiting Him-azwj with the places nor are they indicating to Him-azwj with the sceneries’’. [142]