Miracle 37: The Trembling of the Earth
It is narrated from Asbagh, who said,
‘We went out with Imam Ali (a.s.) to the markets of Kufa. He (a.s.) instructed them to be just with measurement and the weighing. Then he came back to the state home and kicked the ground with his leg! The earth trembled.
He (a.s.) said: ‘Here! Here! What is the matter with you now? Calm down. By Allah, I am the human being to whom the earth will give its news or it would be to a man from me (Imam Mahdi (a.t.f.s.))!’’.1
Similar incident is also reported from Fuzail bin Zubair, who said,
‘Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) was seated in Rahba, and the earth trembled. He (a.s.) struck it with his hand, then said to it: ‘Settle down! Surely it is not the rising Al-Qaim (a.t.f.s.)! And had it been that it would have informed me, and I am the one to whom the earth would be narrating its news’. Then he (a.s.) recited: When the earth is shaken with its earthquake [99:1]. Are you not seeing that it would be narrating on behalf of its Lord?’’2