knowledge of their rights. They are the path of salvation from the cages of nature and the cause of proximity to these lights.

The tenth indication concerning the meanings of the recommended prayer to be performed upon the occurrence of celestial events such as lunar and solar eclipses

The Tenth Indication: On the meanings of the prayers recommended to be performed upon the occurrence of heavenly events, such as lunar and solar eclipses, and the appearance of what contradicts the norms, and also for the occurrence of fear on earth and drought through the withholding of rain from it.

Know, O brother, that an eclipse according to the common people is a darkness that overcomes the radiance of the sun and the moon and takes it away—and this is speech that is not cared for—and according to the astronomers, it is the meeting of the sun and the moon in one zodiacal sign and one minute until the moon has no latitude by which it is distanced from it, and it is near one of the two nodes which they are called the Head and the Tail [Al-Ra's and Al-Dhanab]. Thus, its body veils its body from the sights during their opposition without any accident occurring in the essence of the sun or the moon.