is lifted from him, so he sees his night as day and his day as night, as we previously mentioned.

It was mentioned in the book Hawi al-Asrar (Collector of Secrets) from Master al-Sadiq (peace be upon him): The likeness of the night and the day is like the likeness of the doubters and the upright. This indicates that were it not for this mixture—which is of the nature (sinkh) of the disbeliever—the veil of darkness would have been lifted from the believer, and he would see all of time as day. It shows that after purification (Safa), he sees his Master as eternally manifest, without occultation, and he sees His existence (the Exalted) as more majestic and greater than he saw it before purification. Similarly, he knows of Him what he did not know before purification.

Know that the People of Monotheism have clarified for us the persons of these ideal, imaginative days so that we may use them to infer His intent (the Exalted) by the application of the discourse to them in the celestial books, not so that we believe in them [the physical days] and make them the goal, but rather so that we place our belief in their Celestial Persons and in the Spiritual Manifestations represented by these days.

As for these manifest [physical] days, none of them possesses more greatness than the other; every day is like any other day. This is because every rising of the sun constitutes a day, and every setting of