And when He described - glorified and exalted is He - His sacred Self from the splitting of the jewels with what necessitated His being characterized by the attributes of perfection, and He presented it as one of the clearest evidences of the ability to resurrect, which is His method, along with the familiarity with it due to its proximity and handling, He followed it with something similar in its indication of revival, but it is in meanings and is celestial, explaining what the Friend - peace be upon him - referred to in his argument against his people regarding the invalidation of the divinity of each of light, darkness, and the stars, which are the source of that. He said, ascending from the lower world to the upper world: 'The Splitter of the Dawn' meaning: its creator, and its reality is: the Splitter of the darkness of the night from the dawn. However, when its usage became frequent and it was safe from confusion in it, He attributed the action to the dawn, as it is said: 'The dawn burst forth,' and 'the night burst forth from it.' It is possible that by 'the splitting' is meant the unveiling; because it reveals from the split what was hidden. So He expressed the caused, which is the manifestation, by the cause which is the splitting, and He expressed the dawn with this phrase which is said to be the entrance into the dawn to be suitable for the intention of splitting the stillness with light or otherwise from the action with the movement arranged upon entering the dawn. This indicated to us that the Maker of the dawn is a movement and the one who causes the night to descend: 'And He made the night' with what occurs from its darkening 'a resting place' in which people reside and find comfort. The verse is from the intertwining: He omitted from the first the movement and indicated to it with the stillness, and He omitted from the second the descending and indicated to it with the splitting. And this splitting is one of the greatest evidences of His ability - glorified is He - and it contains two indications; because the dawn includes both the false dawn and the true dawn, and the first is a stronger indication because when the center of the sun reaches the circle of midnight, the place - which that circle is a horizon for it - the sun rises from its east, illuminating in that place half of the globe. Thus, light occurs in the eastern quarter of your town, and that light is widespread, spreading throughout the atmosphere, and it must strengthen moment by moment. If the first were from the disk of the sun, it would be impossible for it to be a straight line; rather, it must be spreading in the horizon, increasing moment by moment. However, it is not like that, for it appears like a white thread rising until the Arabs likened it to the tail of a gazelle, then a complete darkness occurs after it. Then the second, the true, spreads; thus the first was more indicative of the ability; because with the creation of Allah from the beginning, it is a reminder that the lights have no existence except by His creation, and the darknesses have no stability except by His decree.

And when he mentioned light and darkness, he mentioned their origin and included their companion. He said, referring to the place 'the night,' because the one who makes is not only in the meaning of the illuminating, so that the addition is real. Rather, the intended meaning is its continuity in all times: ﴿and the sun﴾, meaning: from which each of them originates. This is from its setting and that is from its rising. ﴿and the moon﴾, meaning: which is the sign of the night. ﴿as a calculation﴾, meaning: having calculations and signs upon it; because the calculation is known by their course and movement. Because of this, He organized - glorified and exalted is He - the affairs of the world in the four seasons. Thus, there will be what is needed from the ripening of fruits and the gathering of crops. He expressed them with the source built upon this eloquent form, indicating that the calculation with them is a great matter of great benefit and much entry, along with what it has of the world in the doors of religion. So it is the main benefit of them upon which the obligation has occurred. It is as if when the matter was thus, their reality was expressed by that. As for other than that from their benefits, there is no entrance for the servants in it.

And when this is a wondrous matter and a dominating description, he indicated it with the tool of distance and said: ﴿that﴾, meaning: the great estimation that has preceded from the separation and what follows it. ﴿the estimation of the Almighty﴾, meaning: the one who cannot be overcome. He is the one who has made them submit to what He has set for them in it, and has dominated the servants over what He has planned for them with it. So if someone wanted to make what He has made of sleep into wakefulness and wakefulness into sleep, or to make the place of residence for movement or vice versa, or other than that which the verse has indicated, he would be unable to do so. ﴿the All-Knowing﴾, meaning: the one who has made that with His knowledge upon a path that does not change and a just measure that does not deviate.