God made magnifying ‘God’s sacred signs’ and God’s inviolable things a means of nearness to Him. The sacred signs are markers and rites. This belongs to ‘the godfearingness of hearts’ [al-Hajj 22:32].
This too is a sharing in greatness, prescribed for us. The associator magnified the partner only because of God’s greatness, seeing that greatness pervades created things and every human being finds it within his natural disposition. Yet the associator reserved the magnitude of God’s greatness within his heart for God alone. He was taken to account only because this occurred without God’s command concerning particular persons, and because the Name was transferred to those persons.
Connection
(Original Disposition and Time)
The roots are preserved through the original disposition upon which God created creation. Do you not see what some of them said, ‘Nothing destroys us except Time’ [al-Jathiya 45:24], and God, exalted is He, said in explicit, authentic revelation, ‘Do not revile Time, for God is Time’? Do you think He said and brought this in vain? No, by God! He brought it as mercy for His servants.
For those who affirm it, Time is not something sensible, but an estimative affair whose form in the world is the existence of night and daylight through the sun’s movement in its sphere, moved by the movement of the greatest sphere, the zodiacal sphere, whose movement produces the day, just as night and daylight arise through the appearance of
