Hadith 7

(The book) ‘Tawheed’ of Al Mufazzal who said, ‘Al-Sadiq-asws said: ‘I-asws alert you, O Mufazzal, upon the wind and what is in it. Don’t you see its stagnation when it does stagnate, how the distress occurs which almost comes upon the breathing, and incites the healthy and weakens the sick, and spoils the fruits, and decays the vegetables, and followed by the plague in the bodies, and the pests in the harvests? In this, there is an explanation that the blowing of the wind is from an arrangement of the Wise One-azwj in the interests of the people. And I-asws shall inform you about the air in another manner, for the sound is an effect, impacted by the friction of the bodies in the air, and the air delivers it to the ears, and the people are talking regarding their needs and their affairs the (entire) length of their day and some of their night. If the effect of this speech was to remain in the air just as the writing remain in the paper, the world would be filled from it, and it would have disturbed them and scared them, and they would have been needy to renewing it and the replacement with it to more than what it needed to in renewing the papers, because whatever one faces from the speech is more than what is written. So, the Wise Creator, Majestic is His-azwj Holiness, Made this air as a hidden paper carrying the speech, awaiting delivery to the world of their needs, and it gets deleted and returns to be as new, clean, and it carries what it carries for ever without termination, and it should suffice you with this gentle breeze, the name ‘Hawa’ (air), as a lesson and what is therein from the interests, for the life of these bodies and the holder for these is from inside with what it inhales from it, and from outside with what it faces from its wind, and in which these voices are expelled and it (air) deposits these from the far distances, and it is the carrier of these smells, transferring it from a place to a place. Do you not see how the smell comes to you from where the wind blows? Similar to that is the sound, and it is the acceptor of this heat and the cold, those which are alternating upon the world for its interest, and from it is the blowing of the wind. The wind blows away from the objects and evoke the cloud from a place to a place to benefit it, until it condenses and it rains, and it unfolds until it lightens and spreads, and trees fertilise, and the ships sail, and it releases the food, and the waters cool, and the fires are ignited, and the moist things dry up, and in summary, it revives all what is in the earth. Had it not been for the wind, the vegetation would wilt and the animals would die, and the things would decompose and spoil’’. [6]