The names "Sun" and "Moon" are also applied to the idols that the people of misguidance used to prostrate to, by the proof of His saying (the Exalted): {Do not prostrate to the sun or to the moon, but prostrate to Allah who created them, if it should be Him that you worship} (Fussilat 37).

They are also applied to the minerals of gold and silver among the people of the Outward [Zahir] and the Inward [Batin], for they call gold "Sun" and silver "Moon" due to their resemblance. The people of the Letter Sciences [Ilm al-Huruf] have assigned the mineral gold to the Sun and the mineral silver to the Moon, and the rest of the minerals to the rest of the planets.

It has appeared in the book (The Luminous Cycles [Al-Akwar al-Nuraniyya]) that the name "The Full-Moon-like Radiant Fluid" [Al-Muhl al-Mubdir al-Muqmar] was applied specifically to the Greatest Name. Likewise, the name "The Sun" was applied specifically to the Noblest Gate. However, when the Meaning [Ma'na] honored His Name, and the Name honored the Gate, the name "The Full-Moon-like Radiant Fluid" came to be applied to the Ancient Meaning, and the name "The Sun" came to be applied to the Great Name.

We also found in the names of the Gate [Al-Bāb] in the books of the People of Monotheism [Ahl al-Tawḥīd] that the name "The Moon" [Al-Qamar] may be applied to the Noblest Gate as well. And it has been