Translations:Yirmi Beşinci Söz/1150/en

The share of a geographer with a literary bent from this phrase: he thinks of the globe of the earth as a ship sailing the oceans of either the air or the ¾ther, and the mountains as masts and posts driven into the ship to balance and stabilize it. He declares: “Glory be unto You! How sublime is Your glory!” before the All-Powerful One of Perfection, Who makes the might y globe as an orderly ship, places us on it, and makes it voyage through the far reaches of the world.