Here is a warning about a reasonable secret, which is that it is impossible for the effect of disbelief to be stronger than the effect of faith with us and with them, such that it prevents its appearance and ruling, as appears in this matter from the fact that the disbelievers’ prostration to the sun, which is disbelief, prevents the believer from prostrating to God, and what prevents it from being replaced is strength. Know that the matter is disbelief. There is something hidden in that, which God has hidden except from those who know, for with this prohibition, God preserved for the disbelievers some of a divine right. To that extent, the prohibition occurred and the force appeared in the ruling by prohibiting the believer from prostrating at that time because the disbelievers prostrate to the sun. This is because God says, “And your Lord has decreed that you should not worship except Him.” And so they did, for they did. They worshiped the sun only because they imagined that it