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that as long as this his brothers. (Ibn Arabi,
prostration is by God’s 1997, Vol. 3: 373)
command, then it is The vision of Joseph of
considered an act of his family in these forms
worshiping the Almighty was not a coincidence; but
and thus the distinction there was a compatibility
here appears between those that necessitates that all of
who prostrate to other than them be embodied in these
God without God’s command, forms, That is because the
and those who prostrate to sun and the moon are two
the creature by God’s origins, like the parents
command on the Day of with regard to the lights of
Resurrection. the planets that do not
This is what happened to appear in the presence of
the Prophet Joseph whom the sun and the moon to
Ibn Arabi called in his whoever sees them, just
book “Futuhat Makkiyya” like the stars whose light
the special creature, as disappears either in the
prostration did not only presence of someone who
happen to him in the world is more luminous than them
of sense; but also in the or because of the distance and
world of imagination, in temp.
which he saw the sun, the This seeing was from
moon, and eleven planets Joseph's viewpoint and if
prostrating to him, and that the forms were seen from
was his father, his aunt, and the viewpoint of those in it,
then the appearance of his
