'In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful' And when the verse made clear that there was a prohibition for the allies of Allah from the construction of the House of Allah by His remembrance, Allah, glorified and exalted is He, had bestowed upon this nation by making the entire earth a mosque. He, blessings and peace be upon him, encouraged the believers that wherever they prayed with the intention of His worship, they would receive His reward. This is because it is not limited to one direction over another, as His ownership is equal for all. So it was as if it was said: 'Establish the prayer, which is the greatest remembrance of Allah, wherever you may be, for it is for Allah,' just as the mosque from which you were prohibited is for Allah; and He added to it His saying: 'And for Allah,' meaning: the One who has all perfection. The 'east' means: the place of sunrise, which is the source of light, and the 'west' is the place of its setting. So Allah, glorified and exalted is He, informed - as al-Harali said - by the addition of the universes to Him, indicating that the direction is towards His face, not towards the direction itself, since the direction is for Him. This ended. And when these two horizons are the center for the stars from the sun and others, He expressed by them all directions, due to the movement of the celestial spheres when they rotate towards each of them. Therefore, it resulted from mentioning them His saying: 'So wherever you turn,' meaning: any place you establish the direction for prayer towards the qiblah you have been commanded to turn towards, whether it is the Sacred House or the Kaaba or others in the voluntary prayer. 'Then there' means: that place, as 'there' indicates a reference to a location. 'The face of Allah' means: His direction to which He has directed you or the place of facing Him and turning towards Him, and what faces you from His majesty and beauty and turns towards you from His goodness and favors. For the relation of all places and directions in creation, closeness, distance, and other than that to Him is one. Al-Harali said: And the Lord has made it ambiguous so that the heart may turn towards the face of Allah when the face of the apparent direction aligns with the direction attributed to Allah. This ended. And when He informed of the vastness of His grace spread in His vast dominion, which the minds have stopped at the limit of His knowledge, He explained it by what is small in comparison to Him, saying: 'Indeed, Allah,' and He mentioned Him by the greatest name that encompasses all names. 'Vast' means: encompassing what cannot be comprehended by imaginations, so nothing occurs except in His dominion; and the origin of vastness is the distance of the edges and boundaries. 'Knowing' means: nothing is hidden from Him of the actions of any doer, wherever they may be and however they may be, for He gives to the one who turns to Him according to the extent of their intention, based on the reach of His encompassing knowledge and the comprehensiveness of His knowledge and ability. Al-Harali said in the explanation of the names: And the vastness is the increase beyond sufficiency, extending to what is beyond, in expansion, mercy, and knowledge.

﴿And My mercy encompasses all things﴾ [Al-A'raf: 156] ﴿For those who do good is the best reward and more﴾ [Yunus: 26] ﴿For them is what they desire therein, and with Us is more﴾ [Qaf: 35] And the vastness does not occur except with the encompassing of knowledge and power, the perfection of forbearance, and the outpouring of goodness and blessings, for the necessity of the perfection of mercy. And for the flow of blessings in the aspects of sufficiency, both apparent and hidden, specifically and generally, the creation has hardly reached a share of the vastness. As for the apparent, it does not occur from them, nor does it hardly occur. Indeed, you will not encompass the people with your kindness. And as for the hidden, specifically with good character, it may nearly occur. And he said in his interpretation: The Most High has preceded: ﴿The east﴾ because it is the place of the emergence of the lights from which the sight is seen. And He followed it with the west, which is the setting of the apparent lights, [and it is the east of the hidden lights, so the balance returns to the fact that the east of the apparent lights] is the west of the hidden lights. “The trial is here, from where the horn of Satan rises - and he pointed with his hand towards the east,” “The people of the west will continue to be manifest upon the truth,” it has ended. I said: And from that is the hadith of Safwan ibn Assal, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, said: “Indeed, for Allah, there is a door in the west,” and in another narration: “The door of repentance is open from the west - the distance of its width is seventy years, it will not be closed until the sun rises from there -” It was narrated by Al-Tabarani and Al-Baghawi in his interpretation. And it has become clear that the west in the previous hadith is in the authentic narration, except for the east which he referred to with the trial in the other hadith. So the west then is the city and what is attributed to it from the direction of the east and what is beyond that from the direction of the south and north, and what is beyond that from the direction of the west to the ends of the earth. So it does not contradict then the hadith “And they are in Sham,” for it is among the west in this estimation. So here is a collection that has long been discussed in it, and thoughts have wandered in it in gatherings and lessons, and Allah is the Grantor of success.