The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The movement of the heavens and the movement of the earth ]

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And when God created these spheres and heavens and revealed in every heaven His command and arranged within it its lights and lamps and its life with His angels, and He Almighty moved it, so it moved in obedience to God, coming to Him seeking perfection in the servitude that befits it, because God Almighty called it and called the earth, so He said to it and to the earth, “Come, willingly or by compulsion.” There is no limit To them they said, “We have come willingly,” and they will come forever, so they remain in motion, except that the movement of the earth is hidden to us, and its movement around the middle because it is larger. As for the sky, it moved obediently when God commanded it to come, and as for the earth, it came obediently when it knew itself to be subjugated and that it must be brought by His word or by compulsion, so that was what was meant by His saying. God Almighty, or by force, and she came, obediently, by force. So He divided them into seven heavens in two da


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