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  • When Dhu ’l-Qarnayn found it (Mount Qáf) speaking, he said, after Mount Qáf had bored the pearls of speech, 3730
  • “O eloquent one, who art wise and knowest the mystery, expound to me the Attributes of God.”
  • It answered, “Go, for those qualities are too terrible for (oral) exposition to put its hand on them,
  • Or for the pen to dare inscribe with its point information concerning them on the pages (of books).”
  • He said, “Relate a lesser tale concerning the wonders of God, O goodly divine.”
  • It said, “Look, the King (God) hath made a plain full of snow-mountains, for the distance of a three hundred years' journey— 3735
  • Mountain on mountain, beyond count and number: the snow comes continually to replenish them.
  • One snow-mountain is being piled on another: the snow brings coldness to the earth.
  • At every moment snow-mountain is being piled on snow-mountain from the illimitable and vast storehouse.
  • O king, if there were not a valley (of snow) like this, the glowing heat of Hell would annihilate me.”