You can see from this what an elevated happiness, what a great honour, it is to be connected to such a Monarch through worship and belief, and to be his guest.

Then I looked at the moon and saw a shining light of miraculousless in the verse,

And the moon, We have measured for her mansions till she returns like the old lower part of a date stalk.(36:39)

Indeed, the determining, rotating, regulating, and illuminating of the moon, and its positioning in regard to the earth and the sun with precise reckoning is so wonderful, so astonishing,  that nothing at all could be difficult for the All-Powerful One who orders and determines it thus. It instructs all beings with intelligence who behold it, conveying to them the idea that the One who makes it thus can surely do everything. It follows the sun and does not deviate from its path even for a second, or lag behind one iota in its duties. It makes those who observe it carefully exclaim: “Glory be to the One whose art bewilders the mind!” Especially when like at the end of May it comes into conjunction with the Pleiades in the shape of a fine crescent, appearing as the curved white branch of a date-palm, and the Pleiades appear as a bunch of grapes, it conjures up in the imagination the existence of a huge luminous tree behind the veil of the green heavens. As if the pointed tip of one of the tree’s branches had pierced the  veil and stuck out its head  together  with its bunch of grapes  and become  the Pleiades and the crescent  moon, and the other stars had become  the fruits of that hidden tree. See the subtlety and eloquence of the metaphor of: “Like the old lower part of a date stalk.”

Then this verse occurred to me,

He  it  is  who  has  made  the  earth  submissive  to  you,  so  traverse  you  its tracts,(67:15)

which suggests that the earth is a mastered ship or mount. From this I saw myself high up in a huge ship speeding through space. I recited the verse,