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Chapter: 99, Verse: 1 to 4 : Imam Ali (as) speaking to the Earth
بهذا الاسناد عن محمد بن أحمد قال: حدثنا أبو عبد الله الرازي عن أحمد بن محمد بن نصر عن روح بن صالح عن هارون بن خارجة رفعه عن فاطمة عليها السلام قالت: اصاب الناس زلزلة على عهد أبي بكر ففزع الناس إلى ابي بكر وعمر فودوهما قد خرجا فزعين إلى علي (ع) فتبعهما الناس إلى ان انتهوا إلى باب علي (ع) فخرج إليهم علي عليه السلام غير مكترث لما هم فيه فمضى واتبعه الناس حتى انتهى إلى تلعة، فقعد عليها وقعدوا حوله وهم ينظرون إلى حيطان المدينة ترتج جائية وذاهبة، فقال لهم علي (ع): كانكم قد هالكم ما ترون قالوا: وكيف لا يهولنا ولم نر مثلها قط قالت فحرك شفتيه، ثم ضرب الارض بيده، ثم قال: مالك اسكني فسكنت، فعجبوا من ذلك أكثر من تعجبهم اولا حيث خرج إليهم، قال لهم: فانكم قد عجبتم من صنعتي؟ قالوا: نعم، قال انا الرجل الذي قال الله: (إذا زلزلت الارض زلزالها واخرجت الارض اثقالها وقال (الانسان مالها) فانا الانسان الذي يقول لها مالك (يومئذ تحدث أخبارها) اياي تحدث
Narrated that Fatimah (عليها السلام) said:
"An earthquake struck the people during the time of Abu Bakr. The people fled in panic to Abu Bakr and Umar, only to find that they both had also gone out in panic to Ali (عليه السلام). The people followed them until they reached the door of Ali (عليه السلام).
Imam Ali (عليه السلام) came out to them, unconcerned by their state of panic. He went forth, and the people followed him until he reached a small hill. He sat upon it, and they sat around him, watching the walls of the city shake, swaying back and forth.
Imam Ali (عليه السلام) said to them, "It seems you are terrified by what you see."
They said, "And how could we not be terrified, when we have never seen its like before?"
Imam Ali (عليه السلام) then moved his lips, struck the ground with his hand, and said, "What is the matter with you? Be still!"
And it became still.
They were more amazed by this than they were at first when he had come out to them [so calmly].
The Imam said to them, "Are you amazed by my action?"
They said, "Yes."
The Imam said, "I am the man about whom Allah has said:
'When the earth is shaken with its [final] earthquake, and the earth brings forth its burdens, and man says, 'What is the matter with it?' (99:1-3) - I am the 'Man' who says to it, 'What is the matter with you?'
'That Day, it will report its news' (99:4) - It is to Me that it reports."
[Source: Elal al-Sharaiyah, Shaikh Saduq, Vol. 2, Pg. 556, Hadith. 8]