it was a power he manifested to the people of the earth so that they might deduce the immense from the minute, and that they might know that He possesses a decree in the heaven just as He possesses a [decree on the earth] 1 , and to validate what His Name alluded [to] 2 in the Mighty Book by His saying, the Exalted: "Then He directed Himself to the heaven while it was smoke and said to it and to the earth, 'Come [into being], willingly or by compulsion.' They said, 'We have come willingly.'" 3 He only performed that so they would know that the heavens and the earth are under His obedience, and so that they would obey him outwardly just as their spiritual forms (ashkhashuha) obeyed him inwardly.
[However] 4 , we say: indeed, the heavens and the earth are under His command and obedience, and He does not extend toward them; rather, they extend toward Him. Were he upon the earth in physical reality and [his hand extended to the sky] 5 ,