The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Prostration is only for the Creator of the sun and the moon ]

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So he said to them, “If your worship of the sun and the moon is for this reason, then I am the Creator of these verses as indications of Me, and prostrate to God who created them.” All night and day, and the sun and moon, are in the pronoun, and here the feminine prevails over the masculine, because the night and the day, the sun, and the moon are passive, not passive, so it is a clear simile for the one who reasoned, and their plural is plural. It is reasonable for the feminine to also point out the lack of the degree that is due to the masculine, and he did not say that they were created so as not to magnify their value by predominance of the masculine over the feminine in their speech. They say Zayd and the Fatimites came out, but do not say they came out, so God who created them is more deserving of worshiping Him than they are, because the rank of the active is above the rank of the passive. The truth is better and more deserving of being worshiped than one who has imperfecti


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