that does not admit emancipation, and the connection of life to customary causes.
Constancy in variation is in His saying, “Every day He is upon an affair” [al-Rahman 55:29], and His saying, “God turns night and day about” [al-Nur 24:44]. There is no breath within the world without the ruling of turning. Do you not see the sun, which is the cause of night and day, running without rest by night or day? Do you not see the stars: “Each swims within a sphere” [al-Anbiya 21:33]? He did not say, “They rest.”
Within three hundred and sixty degrees, at every degree—indeed, every minute, every second, every indivisible part of the sphere—whenever God places any star therein, at its descent God brings into being, within every individual atom of the world of the elements, something whose reality is known only to God, who brought it into existence.
Within the middle assembly of heavenly spirits beneath the concavity of the sphere of the zodiacal signs, He brings forth forms of knowledge of the praises that the Real, Mighty and Majestic, deserves for the divine gnoses He has bestowed upon them: “Each has known its prayer and its glorification, and God knows what they do” [al-Nur 24:41]. Within this assembly are the people of the Gardens. Within the world of the elements and part of this assembly are the people of the Fire who are its proper inhabitants.
Within the higher assembly, which is above the sphere of the zodiacal signs, up to the source of souls and intellects, up to the Cloud, He brings forth, from the sciences imparted by the divine Names, what leads them to praise
