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5224 The old physical world will disappear in the New Creation. (56.5)
56:6 - Becoming dust scattered abroad
69:14 - And the earth is moved and its mountains and they are crushed to powder at one stroke
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5649 The whole of our visible world, as we now know it, will pass away, and a new world will come into being. The
mountains are specially mentioned, because they stand as the type of hardness, size, and durability. They will be
"crushed", i.e., lose their form and being at one stroke. (69.14)
70:9 - And the mountains will be like wool 5682
5682 Cf. ci. 5. where the metaphor of carded wool is used. The mountains which seem so solid will be like flakes of wool
driven by the carder's hand. (70.9)
77:10 - When the mountains are scattered (to the winds) as dust;
81:3 - When the mountains vanish (like a mirage); 5972
5972 Cf. lxxviii. 20. (3) On our own earth the mountains-the "eternal hills"-seem the most striking examples of stability; yet
they will be swept away like a mirage, as if they had never existed. (81.3)
101:5 - And the mountains will be like carded wool. 6253
6253 Cf. n. 5682 to lxx 9. The mountains are solid things, which seem as if nothing could move them. But in that
tremendous cataclysm they will be scattered about like flakes of leased or carded wool. This is a metaphor to show
that what we consider very substantial in this life will be as an airy nothing in the next world. (101.5)
21:104 - The Day that we roll up the heavens like a scroll rolled up for books (completed) even as
We produced the first Creation so shall We produce a new one: a promise We have
undertaken: truly shall We fulfil it. 2758
2758 The world-the universe-as we know it, will be folded up like a scroll of parchment, for it will have done its work. If Allah
created all this world out of nothing, He can create an entirely new heaven and a new earth, on a plane of which we
can form no conception in our present life. And He will do so, for that is His promise. (21.104)
77:9 - When the heaven is cleft asunder;
81:12 - When the Blazing Fire is kindled to fierce heat; 5980
5980 (11) Then will burn the Blazing Fire of the Hell, worse than the fiercest fire. (81.12)
89:21 - Nay! when the earth is pounded to powder 6124
6124 Our attention is now called to the Day of Reckoning. Whether we failed to respect the rights of the helpless here or
actually suppressed those rights in our mad love for the good things of this life, we shall have to answer in the realm
of Reality. This solid earth, which we imagine to be so real, will crumble to powder like dust before the real Presence,
manifested in glory. (89.21)
99:1 - When the Earth is shaken to her (utmost) convulsion 6235
6235 To the ordinary human observer a violent earthquake is a terrifying phenomenon, in its suddenness, in its origin, and
in its power to destroy and uproot the strongest buildings and to bring up strange materials from the bowels of the
earth. The Overwhelming Event (S. lxxxviii.) which ushers in the Judgment will be a bigger and more far-reaching
convulsion than any earthquakes that we know. And yet the incidents of earthquakes may give us some idea of that
supreme world-shaking Event. (99.1)
99:2 - And the Earth throws up her burden (from within) 6236
6236 An earthquake, if accompanied by a volcanic eruption, throws up enormous boulders and lava from beneath the crust
of the earth. They are thrown up as if they were a burden to the Earth personified. They may be all kinds of minerals,
or treasures buried for secrecy. So in the great and final Convulsion, the dead who had been buried and forgotten will
rise; and will be brought to the light of day, and justice will be done in the full glare of absolute Truth. (99.2)
56:4 - When the earth shall be shaken to its depths
69:16 - And the sky will be rent asunder for it will that Day be flimsy
70:8 - The Day that the sky will be like molten brass 5681
5681 Cf. xviii. 29 (where the wrong-doer will have a drink like melted brass in Hell); and xliv. 45, (where his food will be like
molten brass). Here the appearance of the sky is compared to molten brass, or, as some understand it, like the dregs
of oil. What is conveyed by the metaphor is that the beautiful blue sky will melt away. (70.8)
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