Hadith 31

month after month, and year after year. From these are the fast ones, and from these are the slow ones, and from these are the moderate ones of the travel. Then, their returning and their standing, and their taking width wise and lengthwise, and their dimming at the sun while it is bright, and their appearing when it sets. And the sun and the moon flow in the constellations consistently, not changing in their periods and their timings. One who recognises that recognises by a calculation of place and a known matter. By wisdom do the ones of understanding recognise that it isn’t from a wisdom of the human beings, nor inspections of imaginations, nor reflections of the thoughts. So, the heart recognises where the eye points it upon what it sees, that for that is the creation, and the arrangement, and the wondrous matter of a Maker Withholding the sky, the applied principles that it inclines to the earth and that the One–azwj Who Made the sun and the stars in it, is the Creator of the sky. Then the eye looks at what is faintest from the earth, and it points the heart upon what it sees, so the heart recognises by its intellect that it is withheld from the earth deliberately from either declining, or inclining in the air – and he sees the feather thrown with, and it falls from its place and it is in lightness upon what it is upon – He–azwj is the One–azwj Who Withholds the sky which is above it, and it is so that had it not been for that, it would submerge with whatever is upon it from its weight and the weight of the mountains, and the animals, and the trees, and the seas, and the sands. So, the heart recognises by the evidencing of the eyes that the Manager of the earth, He–azwj is the Manager of the sky. Then, the ears hear the sound of the stormy wind and the good (gentle) wind, and the eyes saw what fell off from the branches of the tree, and the demolishment of the solid structure, and the scattering of the weight of the sand emptying one area and filling up another, without there being a driver sighted by the eye, nor heard by the ears, nor realised by anything from the senses, and it isn’t embodied to be touched, nor limited to be seen. So, why don’t the ears and the eyes and the rest of the senses increase upon pointing the heart to that there is a Maker for it? And that is because the heart thinks with the intellect, which is in it, so, he understands that the wind does not move from its own self, and it, if it was moving would not stop from the movement, and would not demolish an area and fill another, and not uproot a tree and leave another to its side and would not hit a land and turn away from another. When the heart thinks regarding the matter of the wind, it knows that for it there is a Mover. He–azwj