It is by the Will of Allah that eternal motion never stops...

It is by the Will of Allah that eternal motion never stops and the life cycle continues. This eternal movement will continue till the Dooms-Day. Jaber, his pupil once asked the Imam "How does the movement of the stars keep them from falling?" The Imam replied : "Put a stone in a sling and swing it round your head. The stone will stay in the sling so long as you are rotating it. But as soon as you stop the rotation, the stone will fall down on the ground.

In the same way the perpetual motion of stars keeps them from falling down. Previous…