I said, ‘And what is ‘Makna’a?
I said, ‘And what is ‘Makna’a?’ He-asws said: ‘Leprosy’’.[9] ‘From Abu Ja’far-asws regarding His-azwj The sun, it is not befitting for it that it should overtake the moon, nor for the night to precede the day, and all are floating in an orbit [36:40].
يَقُولُ الشَّمْسُ سُلْطَانُ النَّهَارِ وَ الْقَمَرُ سُلْطَانُ اللَّيْلِ لَا يَنْبَغِي لِلشَّمْسِ أَنْ تَكُونَ مَعَ ضَوْءِ الْقَمَرِ بِاللَّيْلِ وَ لَا يَسْبِقُ اللَّيْلُ النَّهَارَ He-asws said: ‘The sun is authority (Sultan) of the day, and the moon is authority (Sultan) of the night. If it not befitting for the sun to be with the illumination of the moon at night, nor for the night to precede the day’.
يَقُولُ لَا يَذْهَبُ اللَّيْلُ حَتَّى يُدْرِكَهُ النَّهَارُ He-asws said: ‘The night does not go away until it comes across the day’.
وَ كُلٌّ فِي فَلَكٍ يَسْبَحُونَ يَقُولُ يَجِيءُ وَرَاءَ الْفَلَكِ بِالاسْتِدَارَةِ and all are floating in an orbit [36:40] – He-asws said: ‘It comes behind the orbit with the rotation’’.[10] ‘I asked Abu Abdullahasws about the heat and the cold, from what do they emanate?’ فَقَالَ لِي يَا أَبَا أَيُّوبَ إِنَّ الْمِرِّيخَ كَوْكَبٌ حَارٌّ وَ زُحَلَ كَوْكَبٌ بَارِدٌ فَإِذَا بَدَأَ الْمِرِّيخُ فِي الِارْتِفَاعِ انْحَطَّ زُحَلُ وَ ذَلِكَ فِي الرَّبِيعِ فَلَا يَزَالانِ كَذَلِكَ كُلَّمَا ارْتَفَعَ الْمِرِّيخُ دَرَجَةً انْحَطَّ زُحَلُ دَرَجَةً ثَلَاثَةَ أَشْهُرٍ حَتَّى يَنْتَهِيَ الْمِرِّيخُ فِي الِارْتِفَاعِ وَ يَنْتَهِيَ زُحَلُ فِي الْهُبُوطِ He-asws said: ‘O Abu Ayyub!
Mars is a hot planet and Saturn is a cold planet. So if Mars begins to rise, the Saturn goes lower, and that is in the spring. They do not stop being like that. Every time Mars rises a level, Saturn falls for three months until the Mars ends up high and Saturn ends up in the decline.
فَيَجْلُوَ الْمِرِّيخُ فَلِذَلِكَ يَشْتَدُّ الْحَرُّ فَإِذَا كَانَ فِي آخِرِ الصَّيْفِ وَ أَوَانِ الْخَرِيفِ بَدَأَ زُحَلُ فِي الِارْتِفَاعِ وَ بَدَأَ الْمِرِّيخُ فِي الْهُبُوطِ فَلَا يَزَالانِ كَذَلِكَ كُلَّمَا ارْتَفَعَ زُحَلُ دَرَجَةً انْحَطَّ الْمِرِّيخُ دَرَجَةً حَتَّى يَنْتَهِيَ الْمِرِّيخُ فِي الْهُبُوطِ وَ يَنْتَهِيَ زُحَلُ فِي الِارْتِفَاعِ فَيَجْلُوَ زُحَلُ وَ ذَلِكَ فِي أَوَّلِ الشِّتَاءِ وَ آخِرِ الصَّيْفِ For the Mars that is its hottest time.
When it is at the end of the summer and the beginning of the autumn, Saturn begins to ascend, and the Mars begins to descend. These two do not stop being like that.
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