Question 157 - The Enlightening Answer Across the Ether, Vol 2
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Question 157
The Exalted said: ‘Among His signs are the night and day, the sun and moon. Do not prostrate to the sun or the moon, but prostrate to Allah, who created them, if it is Him you worship’ ([305]). What are the sun and moon? What is the prostration that is forbidden? Was there prostration to them such that it had to be forbidden? Abu Mustafa-Basra
Ahmed al-Hasan Response:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. The verse’s outward meaning is clear and needs no explanation. There are those who believe, or believed, in the absolute divinity of the sun and moon-that is, Allah’s Proof and his vicegerent in every age, and Muhammad (s) and Ali (a) in particular. I previously explained Abraham’s story in the Quran ([306]). What is forbidden is prostration to them on the basis that they possess absolute divinity. What is intended is to regard them as a direction toward Allah, Glorious and Exalted-that is, through them Allah is known ([307]). As for the anthropomorphists, in former nations misguidance led them to believe in the divinity of this sun and moon in this corporeal world. The origin of this deviation is that matter in the Kingdom of the Heavens: that the sun is Allah’s Proof and the moon is his vicegerent, or Muhammad (s) and Ali (a) in particular. Sayyid Ahmed Alhasan Vicegerent and Messenger of Imam al-Mahdi (a)
Source: The Enlightening Answer Across the Ether, Vol 2; Author: Imam Ahmed Al-Hasan; Question 157; Page Not available; AL-JAWAB-AL-MUNIR-V2-Q157. View Arabic source · Open the original Arabic source ↗
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↑ [305] Fussilat 41:37.
↑ [306] See the beginning of volume 1 of The Allegories.
↑ [307] Abu Abdullah (a) said: ‘We are those vested with Allah’s command, the treasurers of Allah’s knowledge, the repository of Allah’s revelation, and the people of Allah’s religion. Allah’s Book was sent down concerning us, through us Allah is worshipped, and were it not for us Allah would not be known. We are the heirs and progeny of Allah’s Prophet.’ Basair al-Darajat by Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Saffar, p. 81.
References
- ↑ Ahmed Al-Hasan. The Enlightening Answer Across the Ether, Vol 2. Question 157; Page Not available. AL-JAWAB-AL-MUNIR-V2-Q157. View Arabic source
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Ahmed Al-Hasan. The Enlightening Answer Across the Ether, Vol 2. Question: 157. Page: Not available. AL-JAWAB-AL-MUNIR-V2-Q157. https://ahmedalhasan.org/ar/Library/BookContent/52