1512 - وَقَالَ اَلصَّادِقُ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ: «إِنَّ اَللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وتَعَالَى خَلَقَ اَلْأَرْضَ فَأَمَرَ اَلْحُوتَ فَحَمَلَتْهَا فَقَالَتْ حَمَلْتُهَا بِقُوَّتِي فَبَعَثَ اَللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ إِلَيْهَا حُوتاً قَدْرَ فِتْرٍ فَدَخَلَتْ فِي مَنْخِرِهَا فَاضْطَرَبَتْ أَرْبَعِينَ صَبَاحاً فَإِذَا أَرَادَ اَللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَنْ يُزَلْزِلَ أَرْضاً تَرَاءَتْ لَهَا تِلْكَ اَلْحُوتَةُ اَلصَّغِيرَةُ فَزَلْزَلَتِ اَلْأَرْضَ فَرَقاً. وقد تكون الزلزلة من غير هذا الوجه.
Hadith.1512 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq 
said:
"Allah (swt), Blessed and Exalted, created the earth and commanded a great whale to carry it. The whale said: 'I carry it by my strength.'
So, Allah (swt), the Mighty and Glorious, sent a smaller whale, the size of a fingertip, which entered its nostril, causing it to thrash and struggle for forty days. Whenever Allah (swt), the Mighty and Glorious, wills to cause an earthquake, that small whale appears before the larger whale, and the earth trembles out of fear."
