The Mahdi Times September 2011 | Page 31

The Ark of Salvation By: M-Ali All praise is due to Allah (swt). There is no god but He (swt), the Living, the Just, the Manifest. He (swt) created the earths and heavens out of nothing. He (swt) created both of them and separated them - a proper separation. The heavens became stable in obedience to His commandment and the earths became fixed on the surface of the water with their pegs. Then our Lord (swt) the All-Merciful subdued the high heavens and ruled from the Throne. Everything that is in heaven and in the earth and in between them and what is below the earth belongs to Him (swt) alone. Build the ship under Our eyes and by Our inspiration, and speak not unto Me on behalf of those who do wrong. Lo! they will be drowned. And he was building the ship, and every time that chieftains of his people passed him, they made mock of him. He said: Though ye make mock of Us, yet We mock at you even as ye mock. 11 Hud : 37-38 Oh Allah (swt), send my sincere salutations and greetings to Muhammed (s), his AhlulBayt (as), the Imams (as) and the Mahdi’s (as), and please allow us to be devout Muslims InshAllah. (Thus it was) till, when Our commandment came to pass and the oven gushed forth water, We said: Load therein two of every kind, a pair (the male and female), and thy house