ISLAMIC MYSTICAL LITERATURE 703who castigated them four thousand years.
If the humans speak again, they will return
to the high king, who in mercy
will pardon them. This is the warning for
the treasure that had once been in our charge.
"Jabir, the demonstration of the princes
among believers happened in the place
of god, thereby increasing his divinity.
The heavens are Salman, Miqdad, Abu Zarr,
Ammar, Jondob, Horayra, and Komayl,
who undertook the tasks. The earth is angels
of Naqib, one step below the seven angels.
The mountains are the Najib and a few
waverers whose example was held up
before the people, and they all accepted.MOUNTAINS, ROCKS, ANIMALS APPEAR
"The other six ranks of the faithless with
their leaders—curse and punish them—refused
the holy gift. So he made them appear
shaped as mountains and rocks, and he transformed
them into animals not to be saved.
But if the faithful and the lingering waverers
in this world keep the pact with the high king,
receiving the holy manifestation,
they will be free from every punishment.
This is the commentary on that verse.
"When these poor faithless, fastened to denial,
quarreled and went to war with the high king,
he terrified them, 'You the unbelievers,
the impure and ungrateful, you seek victory,
rule and control in precincts of the sky.
But you can do nothing without full faith,
without witnessing me. I am the lord.'
As it is written, 'You jinns and humans! If you
have power to penetrate the skies and earth,