The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 487
486 Ā'ĪNA-E-KAMĀLĀT-E-ISLĀM―DĀFI‘UL-WASĀWIS 1 6 وَإِذَا الْجِبَالُ سُيِّرَتْ : وَإِذَا الْبِحَارُ فُجْرَتُ 20 وَإِذَا الْعِشَارُ عُقِلَتْ 3 وَإِذَا النُّفُوسُ زُوجَتْ وَإِذَا الصُّحُفُ نُشِرَتْ إِذَا زُلْزِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ ، وَإِذَا الْأَرْضُ مُدَّتْ وَ الْقَتْ مَا فِيهَا وَ تخلت وَإِذَا الكَوَاكِبُ انْتَثَرَتْ * وَإِذَا الْوُحُوشِ حُشِرَتْ 9 He says: There are Signs of the Latter Days in all these verses for a peo- ple who reflect. With your own eyes you have witnessed how the mountains have been made to move and were shaken from their stations—their pegs demolished, their summits flattened into depressions, and their ranges disappeared. You tread on their tracks and even run on them. Regarding the flowing forth of the rivers you have surely seen that Allah has raised a people who made the rivers to flow forth, diverted into canals. They continue to dig canals out of rivers. They have become the mas- ter of all the intricacies in the art of canalization, and have made the water flow into all barren valleys in order to populate the lands and protect their dwellers from the calamities of drought. This is how they work, that they may fully benefit from the land, and indeed they are the ones who benefit from it. 1. And when the mountains are made to move (Surah at-Takwir, 81:4). [Publisher] 2. And when the rivers are made to flow forth into canals (Surah al-Infiṭār, 82:4). [Publisher] 3. And when the she-camels, ten month pregnant, are abandoned (Surah at-Tak- wir, 81:5). [Publisher] 4. And when people are brought together (Surah at-Takwir, 81:8). [Publisher] 5. And when books are spread abroad (Surah at-Takwir, 81:11). [Publisher] 6. When the earth is shaken (Surah az-Zilzāl, 99:2). [Publisher] 7. And when the earth is spread out. And casts out all that is in her, and becomes empty (Surah al-Inshiqāq, 84:4-5). [Publisher] 8. And when the stars are scattered (Surah al-Infiṭār, 82:3). [Publisher] 9. And when the beasts are gathered together (Surah at-Takwir, 81:6). [Publisher]