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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Journey To The Fact Can Chance Be Considered A Proof? The young son did not sleep that night. Instead, he spent the night praying and prostrating. He was raising his hand to call God, and forgot that his arms got tired.

He recited different parts from various supplications he had memorized, kept repeating some sentences, raised his head and glanced at the sky with the moon in the middle with its amazing gentle silver rays, in a way that no star could be seen. As if the stars let the moon which is greater and stronger to take its place while they surrounded the moon in a magnificent view.

At that moment the boy remembered verses from the Quran: “ Whatever beings there are in the heavens and the Earth do prostrate themselves to Allah .” All the stars and planets prostrate before God. “They are all praying”, he said. “They are all doing what I’m doing, or maybe I’m doing something similar to what they are doing.” Then he stared at the kneeled moon and stars in its vicinity.

He imagined the sky as a huge mosque in which the moon was acting as a leader for those stars in their majestic prayers to God. He wished he could be in the place of one of the stars, even a small one, to participate in that holy and impressive prayer behind the moon. He wished that all creatures could participate in that universal prayer.

Suddenly he remembered a verse from the holy Quran, in chapter of Haj, he memorized by heart that verse and began reciting: “ Seest thou not that to Allah bow down in worship all things that are in the heavens and on Earth,- Sun, Moon, stars; hills, trees, animals; and a great number among mankind? But a great number are (also) such as are fit for punishment .” He felt that the prayer ceremony he was looking at is much greater than what he could imagine!

There were mountains, trees and animals participating in this prayer. There were also a lot of people and he has joined them at that night. He was repeating the following while prostrating: Glory to the Exalted God! Glory to the One Who deserves Glorification that no one else does! Glory to the most Mighty and most Generous! The son’s prostration took a long time while he floated with his thoughts.

He visualized the leader of the group in his mind, the luminous moon, and the galaxies and meteors behind.