21 Preface كَلّا إِذا دُكَّتِ الأَرضُ دَكًّا دَكًّاYusuf AliNay! When the earth is pounded to powder,1Our attention is now called to the Day of Reckoning. Whether we failed to respect the rights of the helpless here or actually suppressed those rights in our mad love for the good things of this life, we shall have to answer in the realm of Reality. This solid earth, which we imagine to be so real, will crumble to powder like dust before the real Presence, manifested in glory.