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The Clarification of Wills in the Forms of Acts of Worship - Volume 2 - Habib Eid Al-Saleh

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narrated in the books of the People of Monotheism that the names "The Sun" and "The Moon" are applied to the Two Saints [Al-Waliyyayn] as well.

And we see people applying the names "Sun" and "Moon" to the images drawn on paper and other things, or in engravings on any mineral, plant, or animal substance. These two names may also be applied to every sultan and ruler, such as their saying: "So-and-so is the sun of this nation or this country, or its moon." That is by way of metaphor [majāz]. These two names may also be applied to those two luminaries that appear in this sky among the bright stars.

Know that the Great Quran is an all-encompassing sea and a vast treasure; it did not leave anything—whether praised, censured, or neglected—without mentioning it in its noble verses, according to the words of the Exalted: {What is this book that leaves nothing small or great except that it has enumerated it} (Al-Kahf 49). And the Exalted said: {We have neglected nothing in the Book} (Al-An'am 38). And the Exalted said: {And every thing We have explained in detail} (Al-Isra' 12).

The Quran is a container for all secrets, celestial and earthly. The People of Monotheism [Ahl al-Tawhid] have identified it with the person of the Greatest Name, because the Greatest Name has acquired all sciences, celestial and earthly, by His saying (the Exalted): {And He

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