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  • Beware, beware! Do not regard these cords of causation in the world as (deriving their movement) from the giddy wheel (of heaven),
  • Lest you remain empty and giddy like the (celestial) wheel, lest through brainlessness you burn like markh wood. 850
  • By the command of God the wind devours (extinguishes) fire: both are drunken with the wine of God.
  • O son, when you open your eyes you will see that from God too are the water of clemency and the fire of anger.
  • Had not the soul of the wind been informed by God, how would it have distinguished (the believers and unbelievers) amongst the people of ‘Ád?
  • The story of the wind which destroyed the people of ‘Ád in the time of (the prophet) Húd, on whom be peace.
  • Húd drew a line round the believers: the wind would become soft (subside) when it reached that place,
  • (Although) it was dashing to pieces in the air all who were outside of the line. 855
  • Likewise Shaybán the shepherd used to draw a visible line round his flock
  • Whenever he went to the Friday service at prayer-time, in order that the wolf might not raid and ravage there:
  • No wolf would go into that (circle), nor would any sheep stray beyond that mark;