She said...
She said, ‘Your -saww house is better in aroma due to your -saww fragrance, O Rasool Allah -saww !’ قَالَ إِذَا بِعْتِ فَأَحْسِنِي وَ لَا تَغُشِّي فَإِنَّهُ أَتْقَى وَ أَبْقَى لِلْمَالِ فَقَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا أَتَيْتُ بِشَيْءٍ مِنْ بَيْعِي وَ إِنَّمَا أَتَيْتُ أَسْأَلُكَ عَنْ عَظَمَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَقَالَ جَلَّ جَلَالُ اللَّهِ سَأُحَدِّثُكِ عَنْ بَعْضِ ذَلِكِ He -saww said: ‘When you sell, do it well and do not cheat, for it would be more pious and protective of the wealth’.
She said, ‘O Rasool Allah -saww , I did not come to sell anything, but rather I came to ask you -saww about the Magnificence of Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic’. So he -saww said: ‘Majestic is the Majesty of Allah -azwj . I -saww shall tell you about some of that’.
ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ هَذِهِ الْأَرْضَ بِمَنْ عَلَيْهَا عِنْدَ الَّتِي تَحْتَهَا كَحَلْقَةٍ مُلْقَاةٍ فِي فَلَاةٍ قِيٍّ وَ هَاتَانِ بِمَنْ فِيهِمَا وَ مَنْ عَلَيْهِمَا عِنْدَ الَّتِي تَحْتَهَا كَحَلْقَةٍ مُلْقَاةٍ فِي فَلَاةٍ قِيٍّ وَ الثَّالِثَةُ حَتَّى انْتَهَى إِلَى السَّابِعَةِ وَ تَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَماواتٍ وَ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ مِثْلَهُنَّ Then he -saww said: ‘This earth, along with the ones upon it, compared to that which is below it, it like a ring thrown in the desert, and these two with what is within them and what is upon them, compared to what is beneath them is like a ring thrown in the desert, and the third one, until it ends with the seventh’.
And he -saww recited this Verse: Allah is the One Who Created the seven skies, and from the earth similar to these [65:12] .
وَ السَّبْعُ الْأَرَضِينَ بِمَنْ فِيهِنَّ وَ مَنْ عَلَيْهِنَّ عَلَى ظَهْرِ الدِّيكِ كَحَلْقَةٍ مُلْقَاةٍ فِي فَلَاةٍ قِيٍّ وَ الدِّيكُ لَهُ جَنَاحَانِ جَنَاحٌ فِي الْمَشْرِقِ وَ جَنَاحٌ فِي الْمَغْرِبِ وَ رِجْلَاهُ فِي التُّخُومِ وَ السَّبْعُ وَ الدِّيكُ بِمَنْ فِيهِ وَ مَنْ عَلَيْهِ عَلَى الصَّخْرَةِ كَحَلْقَةٍ مُلْقَاةٍ فِي فَلَاةٍ قِيٍّ The seven earths (firmaments) along with the ones within these and the ones upon it are upon the back of the rooster, like a ring thrown in the desert.
And the rooster [43] has two wings to it – a wing in the east and a wing in the west, and its legs are on the fringes of it, and the seven (firmaments) and the rooster and all that is contained with these and whatever is on it, are upon a rock, like a ring thrown in the desert.
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