ter by depicting a curved sphere stretching from east to west, while the second and third matters he would solve by describing a curve stretching from south to north. He would reply as though with a rational demonstration (bürhan-ı aklî). Concerning the qibla he would say that the qibla and Ka'ba form a column of light so luminous it fastens the heavens to the divine throne in regular order, and piercing all the levels of the globe to the innermost, has become a luminous pillar of the universe. If the veil were to be lifted, following a perpendicular line the beam of your eye would meet and salute the Ka'ba's eye at every action of the ṣalāt.

Brother! If you are the man I think you are, the strange fancies you have, have found nowhere other than the world of imagination to settle and lack any value that they should enter your heart. You don't believe them yourself even and you can't convince your soul, but you've gone astray. If the globe, which is many times smaller than your imagination, cannot be situated in your heart, which is open to those fancies and closed to the truth, broaden your horizons and expand your mind! Behold the dwellers on the earth, who have become like the members of a council, and ask them. For the landowner knows his house. Basing it on observation and consensus, they will tell you unanimously: "Our globe, our cradle and railway through space, is not so crazy as to make itself an unbridled exception to the divine laws in force in the lofty bodies." And they would proffer some relief maps.

Indication

The Divine Shari'a of Creation, called the order of the world's creation, has made it obligatory that the travelling globe, in ecstasy like a Mevlevi, joins the row of the orderly stars and complies with it. For together with its partner, the earth declared: "We do come [together] in willing obedience"(41:11). Worshipful obedience is preferable and more meritorious in congregation.

In Short: The world's Maker created the earth as He wished and as His wisdom required, not as your appetites wanted, you fond imaginers! He didn't appoint your intelligences as the world's engineers !