First Word All Beings Say Bismillah Through The Language Of Their State

At the beginning we said that all beings say "In the Name of Allah" through the tongue of disposition. Is that so?

Indeed, it is so. If you were to see that a single person had come and had driven all the inhabitants of a town to a place by force and compelled them to work, you would be certain that he had not acted in his own name and through his own power, but was a soldier, acting in the name of the government and relying on the power of the king.

In the same way, all things act in the name of Almighty Allah, for minute things like seeds and grains bear huge trees on their heads; they raise loads like mountains. That means all trees say: "In the Name of Allah," fill their hands from the treasury of mercy, and offer them to us. All gardens say: "In the Name of Allah," and become cauldrons from the kitchens of divine power in which are cooked numerous varieties of different foods. All blessed animals like cows, camels, sheep, and goats, say: "In the Name of Allah," and produce springs of milk from the abundance of mercy, offering us a most delicate and pure food like the water of life in the name of the Provider. The roots and rootlets, soft as silk, of plants, trees, and grasses say: "In the Name of Allah," and pierce and pass through hard rock and earth. Mentioning the name of Allah, the name of the Most Merciful, everything becomes subjected to them.

The roots spreading through hard rock and earth and producing fruits as easily as the branches spread through the air and produce fruits, and the delicate green leaves retaining their moisture for months in the face of extreme heat, deal a slap in the mouths of naturalist philosophers and jab a finger in their blind eyes, saying: "Even heat and hardness, in which you most trust, are under a command. For like the Staff of Moses, each of those silken rootlets conforms to the command, فَقُلْنَا اضْرِبْ بِعَصَاكَ الْحَجَرَ "And We said, O Moses, strike the rock with your staff" (2:60) and splits the rock. And the delicate leaves fine as cigarette paper recite the verse, يَا نَارُ كُون۪ى بَرْدًا وَ سَلَامًا "O fire be coolness and peace" (21:69) against the heat of the fire, each like the members of Abraham (UWP).