The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ He created the sun in the fourth heaven ]

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Then after that, God created in the fourth heaven of the seven heavens a luminous star of great magnitude, which he called the sun in the Arabic language, and through it that luminous star appeared to him in his sight from behind the veil of the earth over which this one was looking, so he called that rising star, and the rising was sunrise because that luminous star rose from it and illuminated. With it is the atmosphere in which this observer is, and his sight continued to follow the movement of that planet until he compared it, and he called that comparison equator. Then he took the planet descending from its equator with this observer, looking towards the right side of it, not by looking at the planet in itself, as we said, so he called the first separation of it from the equator in the eye of the observer from the equator. And then, this observer continued to follow his sight until the body of that star disappeared, so he called its setting “sunset.” And the place where his s


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