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  • Therefore the Prophet banished this (false) judgement from him (the thinker), lest he should be conceiving in error a vain imagination.
  • And (as for) him in whose judgement (conception of God) there is irreverence, the Lord hath doomed the irreverent to fall headlong. 3705
  • To fall headlong is that he goes downward and thinks that he is superior,
  • Because such is the case of the drunken man who does not know heaven from earth.
  • Go ye and think upon His wonders, become lost (to yourselves) from the majesty and awe (of Him).
  • When he (who beholds the wonders of God) loses beard and moustache (abandons pride and egoism) from (contemplating) His work, he will know his (proper) station and will be silent concerning the Worker (Maker).
  • He will only say from his soul, “I cannot (praise Thee duly),” because the declaration thereof is beyond reckoning and bound. 3710
  • How Dhu ’l-Qarnayn went to Mount Qáf and made petition, saying, "O Mount Qáf, tell me of the majesty of the Attributes of God"; and how Mount Qáf said that the description of His majesty is ineffable, since (all) perceptions vanish before it; and how Dhu ’l-Qarnayn made humble supplication, saying, "Tell of His works that thou hast in mind and of which it is more easy for thee to speak."
  • Dhu ’l-Qarnayn went towards Mount Qáf: he saw that it was (made) of pure emerald,
  • And that it had become a ring surrounding the (whole) world. He was amazed at that immense creation (work of God).
  • He said, “Thou art the mountain (indeed): what are the others? for beside thy magnitude they are (but) playthings.”
  • It replied, “Those (other) mountains are my veins: they are not like unto me in beauty and glory.
  • I have a hidden vein in every land: (all) the regions of the world are fastened to my veins. 3715
  • When God wills an earthquake in any land, He bids me and I cause the vein to throb.
  • Then I make to move mightily the vein with which the (particular) land is connected.
  • When He says ‘Enough!’ my vein rests. I am (apparently) at rest, but actually I am in rapid motion”—
  • At rest, like the (medicinal) ointment, and very active (efficacious); at rest, like the intellect, while the speech (impelled) by it is moving.
  • In the opinion of him whose intelligence does not perceive this, earthquakes are caused by terrestrial vapours. 3720
  • An ant, walking on a piece of paper, saw the pen writing and began to praise the pen. Another ant, which was more keen-sighted, said, "Praise the fingers, for I deem this accomplishment to proceed from them." Another ant, more clear-sighted than either, said, "I praise the arm, for the fingers are a branch of the arm," et cetera.
  • A little ant saw a pen (writing) on a paper, and told this mystery to another ant,
  • Saying, “That pen made wonderful pictures like sweet basil and beds of lilies and roses.”
  • The other ant said, “That artist is the finger, and this pen is actually (no more than) the derivative (instrument) and the sign.”
  • A third ant said, “It is the work of the arm, by whose strength the slender finger depicted it.”
  • In this fashion it (the argument) was carried upward till a chief of the ants, (who) was a little bit sagacious, 3725
  • Said, “Do not regard this accomplishment as proceeding from the (material) form, which becomes unconscious in sleep and death.
  • Form is like a garment or a staff: (bodily) figures do not move except by means of intellect and spirit.”
  • He (the wise ant) was unaware that without the controlling influence of God that intellect and heart (mind) would be inert.