Basatin al-uns 71.107

71.107

"Its terrors are its waves, its lightning is the flash of lightning, its stars are the white clouds, and it is a sky and an earth, for contraries have gathered within it; will it not cause fear and
trembling?" And signs of "a wave covers it, above which is a wave, above which is a cloud" became manifest; and that "vessel of planks became like a feather in a
desert, which the winds turn about however they please." The sailor of the vessel, who used to surpass everyone in swimming, sank down like an anchor into the depths of the sea;
and the navigator, who was studying the charts of the voyage to the confluence of the two seas, washed the register of knowledge clean with the salt water of his eyes,