وَبِقُوَّتِكَ الَّتِي قَهَرْتَ بِهَا كُلَّ شَيٍْء
(And I ask You) by Your Strength, through which You dominate everything.
Allah’s Strength, just as His holy Existence, is infinite. Other abilities and strengths are insignificant before His Strength. No strength is independent from His Strength, but a ray of His Power: “لا حول و لا قوه الا بالله “: “There is no Power but Allah’s.” In the last section, the phrase “كل شيء” was briefly discussed and it was concluded that:
“كل شيء” includes all the creatures and beings, which have been created by Allah’s Mercy, and whose exact quality and quantity no one knows and will not know until the Day of Judgment. Who is aware of the exact number of billions of heavenly germs, galaxies, plants, animals, birds, beasts, reptiles of the earth and sea, and the countless amebas, viruses, microbes, and hidden beings and the angels?
The Compassionate Creator of the world, who has such an unending Power over “everything in the world”, dominates everything, and nothing is out of His embracing Strength.
Allah maintains the heavens and their germs, the galaxies and the stars, the systems and their inhabitants-some of which weight more than billions of tons-which have been floating in a certain orbit, with a definite speed for billions of years now, and He keeps them from falling down.
وَخَضَعَ لَهَا كُلُّ شَيٍْء وَذَلَّ لَها كُلُّ شَيْءٍ
(I ask You) by Your Strength, toward which everything is humble and before which all things are lowly.
Everything in this world, from the hidden to the visible beings, from the largest to the smallest beings, from the most extensive galaxies, stars, and planets to the tiniest atoms that are not observable with scientific tools, is contemptible before Allah. Everything is conquered by His rule and surrendered to His wise fiat and ready to make obedience to Him. All the creatures are unexceptionally capitulated to Allah’s immeasurable Strength.
A phrase from a supplication stated by an infallible Imam’ conscious heart and mind reads: “Surely You are; You are the God to Whose Strength everything is capitulated and humble. You are able to do anything to Your creatures and dominate any of them. You are the One Who created all the things and have control over them. You are the Master of all things. There is no God except You. You are the Generous and the Mighty.”
Granting the exigency of a humble and weeping servant in a Thursday night is very easy for the One Who has dominated everything with His infinite Power, and to Whose Strength everything is capitulated. And it is much effortless for Him to manipulate His various agents in the heavens and the earth to grant His servant’s worldly and heavenly demands.
Is it possible that a heartbroken, who calls Allah by His Mercy and Strength and who knows nothing above Him, become unfortunate? Never! It is not strange from worldly incapable beings to be incompetent in fulfilling others’ demands. But Allah’s All-Sufficient existence, and His infinite Mercy and Strength necessitate the fulfillment of the supplications in accord with the servant’s expediency and His own Wisdom.
We read in the thirteenth supplication of the “Sahifa Sajjadiya”[1]: “You have attributed Your creatures to poverty and they entirely need You. Therefore one, who asks You to compensate the shortcomings of his life and alter his poverty to richness, has indeed turned to the precise Position and the right One to obtain his need. And one, who asks his exigency from one of Your creatures, has certainly deprived himself and does not deserve Your favor.
I eagerly follow the path toward You and I only hope and believe in You. I know that what I ask You is easy before Your Strength, however difficult it may be to me. And I realize that what I need is so trivial for You, however significant it may be for me. Your Generosity does not become narrow by anyone’s exigency and it is Your Bounty, which is above all other generosities.”
The world and the beings inside it that were once nothing to be mentioned became beings by Allah’s Will. And they continue existence under His Mercy and Strength. They are not independent of Allah; they are basically poor and pitiable and humble before Him.
Human being is not worthy of showing power and pride before Allah’s Strength, since his body is as trivial as a handful of soil, his soul is but a moment of existence, and his mind is incapable of knowing even a tiny atom. Human cannot present himself before Allah Whose Mercy has surrounded all his life; otherwise it causes him loss and deprivation from Allah’s Mercy and doomed punishment.
وَبِجَبرُوتِكَ الَّتِى غَلَبْتَ بِهَا كُلَّ شَيٍْء
(I ask You) by Your Invincibility, through which You overwhelm all things.
Lexically, the Arabic word “جبروت” (Invincibility) is hyperbole; it means Allah compensates for all the shortcomings and inadequacies of the creatures by giving every blessing, necessary tools and equipments to them; a lofty compensation.
All the beings are insignificant before creation; their primary element is an atom, a particle, a seed, or trivial semen. They have inadequacies at first that are made up by Allah’s Invincibility, so that all the creatures reach their full entity and occupy their due position in the living world.
Allah’s Compensation of the insufficiencies
The compensation of creatures’ shortcomings by Allah is an important issue, some instances of which are narrated here from scientific books, hoping that they increase our faith in the Lofty Source of Bounty.
Compensation of sun’s exhausted energy
The sun, which provides a major part of our energy, is only a small element of this world. Its heat is so extreme that no other fire can compete with it. The surface temperature of sun is approximately 6093 degrees centigrade; its inner temperature is still beyond this. In every second, the sun spreads more that twelve million and four hundred thousand tons of energy in the space. If we want to produce the heat used by the sun in one minute, we will need 679 million billion tons of coal. The energy exhausted by the sun in a minute weighs about four million tons and it turns to 126’144’000’000’000 tons in each year. No fire can go on burning without energy. So if the sun obtains nothing from outside and it burns this amount of energy per year, why doesn’t it get cold? Meanwhile, if the sun was made of pure coal, it could not burn more than sixty centuries.
The answer to this question is only given by Allah’s Invincibility. He has set the sun as a huge mass of gasses, which regains the exhausted energy by contraction. This fact is the result of numerous scientific studies in east and west and writing hundreds of pages of books that is now available to us as a simple sentence.
In fact, He is the One Who balance the objects’ exhausted energy in various ways; compensation of sun’s exhausted energy is but one sign of Allah’s Invincibility.
Compensation of Caspian Sea Tide
The Caspian Sea is about 27.6 meters beneath the sea level and it still continues to go further down. The Caspian Sea is not related to the free seas so its tide is not in accord with the oceans’ general ebb and flow. Due to its small size, this sea cannot use the moon gravity, so it should not have tide. As a result it should have become rotten long ago, polluting its shores, and losing any living things in it. But why it didn’t happen?
The Omnipotent Who created the sea knew well how to compensate this shortcoming. He sent winds called “Sarnuk”, “Khazari”, and “Miyanwa”[2] that waves the sea level to such an extent that the rivers pouring into it have tide too. These winds blow so powerfully that most fishermen cannot control their boats against them. Another duty of the mentioned winds is that they drive the clouds from the north to the south of the sea and produce rain in the northern shores of Iran, that’s why the meadows in this region are always full of flowers.
The winds also send the seawater into “Anzali marsh” to make it clean. Due to constant flood-like rain, the rivers in Gilan[3] are usually muddy and full of seeds and roots from the woods. The mud of the rivers pouring into the marsh thickens the bottom layer of it. The seeds and roots, too, grow inside the marsh. These two factors are enough to dry the marsh water and turn it to a swamp soon. What is the reason then that this marsh has existed for hundreds of years now?
To avoid this, the Almighty sends the seawater to the floods. At the same time as the above-mentioned winds send the clouds from the north of the sea to the south, the fresh seawater flows to the muddy river water and mixes with it, making it less dense and removing any seeds and roots by its salt.
When these winds stop, Allah sends other winds called “Keramwa”, “Kenarowa” and “Aftab Bushu” to reverse the water flow, pouring the marsh water into the Caspian Sea, and hence evacuate the marsh from muddy waters.
Still two other winds called “Gilwa” and “Durushtwa” have the duty of shaking the marsh water from the East to the West, helping mix the water!![4]
Allah’s Compensation of Fruit Seeds Shortage
Fruit seeds are useless until they are planted and become subject to Allah’s Invincibility that shapes them in various forms.
A pleasant apple was once a tiny and closed seed inside a grocery store box. It was not of use as a seed except that it be planted. When the farmer placed it under the soil, some agents like fresh air, light, water and mineral elements helped it compensate its shortcomings, by Allah’s Will. So the apple became a delicious, pleasant, and colorful fruit, adornment for the parties and food for humans.
Taking a quick look at the apple ingredients makes us more familiar with Allah’s Invincibility:
Azotic (nitrogen) ingredients: proteins and amino acids like lizine, Ursenin, histidine, and tirusine)
Mineral materials: iodine, potassium, boron, phosphor, calcium, iron, cupper, cudium, sulphur, manganese, zinc, and penizium.
Starch-Glucose materials: dextrose, cellulose, pentosan, and starch.
Sugars: glucose, fructose, and sucrose.
Pectic materials: pectic acid, pectin, pecthinic acid, and protopectin.
Fats and acids: malic acid, citric acid, oxalic acid, ascorbic acid, and lactic acid.
Color ingredients: antocianines, and chlorophyll.
Vitamins: A, B, C, and G.
Enzymes: catalos, and oxidase.
Water: 84 percent.
This is how the Invincible compensates the shortcomings of a fruit. If we want to mention His compensation of other material as well as spiritual elements, we would need blank pages as much as the number of all the beings.
