Reflection on the Verse of Allah, the Sun.
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The Shaykh : When a person reflects in his heart, and reflection in the heart is not tiring, if he reflects in his heart on this universe, on the dominion of the heavens and the earth, as Allah commanded him [Al-A'raf 7:185], consider this great, luminous sun, the blazing lamp, whose heat penetrates these vast, distant distances until it reaches the earth. This sun, which is large in size and glows with fire—who created it? Allah.
If all of creation wanted to make one millionth of it, they would have no way to do so. And this sun, in its movement and regularity, from the time Allah created it until Allah the Exalted permits the destruction of the world, it remains in its movement, neither advancing nor retarding, neither rising nor descending, with regularity and order. Make a mark for yourself every day at its rising and at its setting, and you will find how this sun moves with balanced motion. Every day it has a setting, every day it has a rising. For this reason, Allah the Exalted said in the Noble Qur'an:[Al-Ma'arij 70:40] And the scholars have established that the sun cannot appear on the second day in the place where it appeared on the previous day, ever. Rather, it must shift, but this shift is not felt. Therefore, people say, for example, when the sun reaches its zenith, "The sun has stopped." It does not stop; it never stops. Its movement at rising, at setting, and at zenith is the same. But when it is overhead, a person does not feel its movement, so some people think it has stopped, but that is not the case.
Do they not look into the realm of the heavens and the earth
قل انظروا في ملكوت السماوات والأرضIf all of creation wanted to make one millionth of it, they would have no way to do so. And this sun, in its movement and regularity, from the time Allah created it until Allah the Exalted permits the destruction of the world, it remains in its movement, neither advancing nor retarding, neither rising nor descending, with regularity and order. Make a mark for yourself every day at its rising and at its setting, and you will find how this sun moves with balanced motion. Every day it has a setting, every day it has a rising. For this reason, Allah the Exalted said in the Noble Qur'an:
