(^706) ISLAMIC MYSTICAL LITERATURE
and limestone. He made every mountain, rock,
piece of gravel, and mineral in the world
out of those unpeaceful with the high king
and those who fought his regents. May his blessing
be on us. As it is written, 'So we reward those
who are not sober or who do not believe
signs of the lord. Their punishment will be
a hereafter of extreme enduring pain.
Did you not understand when you look at
the homes of generations we destroyed?'^123
"All waters of the world were made from them.
Followers of those beings, outsiders,
consider those waters not as waters that the
regents of the high lord made from them but as
rains from the firmament, yet if such rain
came down it would have rained a thousand years
and all the world would long have turned to water.
These waters were made by Salman out of
the faithless, which he poured into the world
and put into the seaways of the earth. They flow
through the earth's arteries, and four elements
of nature rise into the air and fall as rain
to keep the earth damp and fresh.
"All this Salman created, every mountain,
rock, and beast. All vegetation and plants.
SALMAN TURNS THE FAITHLESS INTO
ELEMENTS AND CREATURES
"All those who fought against the high creator
he degraded. All those who reproached the high king
he made into fine clay. All those who turned
against the lofty king he turned into bronze.
All those who'd practiced soothsaying he made
into iron. All those who called the king
traitor he turned into mountains and rocks.
- Qur'an sura 20.