draw them to yourself. You say: 'I tilted the thing, so it inclined,' meaning: I pulled it, so it moved toward me. 'Then place on every mountain a portion of them' [Verse 260]. Muhammad said: Meaning: cut them up, then place on every mountain a portion of them; he abbreviated [the phrase by saying] 'cut them up'. 'Then call them, they will come to you' [Verse 260]—say: 'Come by the permission of Allah,' and they will come to you 'in haste' [Verse 260], meaning: walking upon their feet.

Yahya said: He took four birds of different colors, names, and feathers; he took a rooster, a peacock, a pigeon, and a raven. He severed their necks, then mixed the feathers of some with others, and the blood of some with others, then distributed them across four mountains. It was called out from the heavens through revelation: 'O scattered bones, O torn flesh, O severed veins, assemble, for Allah shall return your spirits into you!' So the blood began to flow toward the blood, the feather to fly toward the feather, and the bone to leap toward the bone. He then attached their heads to them and breathed their spirits into them. It was said: 'O Abraham, when Allah created the earth, He placed His House in its center and made the earth with four corners, and the House with four pillars; each pillar in one of the corners of the earth. He sent upon it from the heavens four winds: the North, the South, the West, and the East. When the Trumpet is blown on the Day of Resurrection, the bodies of the slain and the perished will be gathered from the four corners of the earth and its four angles, just as the four...