The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Prostration to the Knower of the secret and the open and the One who brings forth the hidden ]

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He says that the sun to which they prostrate, even if they believe that it knows what they declare, then prostration to Him who knows what they hide and what they declare is better. Then they prostrate to the sun because it brings out for them with its heat what the earth has hidden of plants. So God said to them, “You should prostrate to the One who brings out what is hidden in the heavens.” It is His bringing out of the stars that appeared after their disappearance and hiding them, then He makes them appear emerging from that hiding place, and on the earth what He brings forth from its vegetation. The sun does not have that, but rather by its appearance, the stars in the heavens are hidden. So God is more worthy of prostrating to Him than your prostration to the sun, for its ruling is with God. Like the rule of the stars in their waning and rising, their rising from the hidden place that God brings out in the sky like all the other stars, this is the prostration of preponderance


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