Recognition of Imam Part II - The Sun and the Moon of the World of Religion
The Sun and the Moon of the World of Religion
Tags: twelve, sun, moon, twenty-four, twenty-eight
In verse (25:61), God says: "Blessed be He Who has made constellations in the heaven, and has made in it a lamp (i.e., the sun) and a luminous moon".
It should be known that the real blessing is not in worldly things, but in religious ones. Thus, God is blessed in the sense that He has created the world of religion, in whose heaven of spirituality He made twelve constellations, i.e., twelve hujjats, and the sun and the moon, i.e., the Prophet and the Imam in the cycle of Prophethood and the Imam and the hujjat-i a`zam (the supreme hujjat) in the cycle of Imamat.
Although there are twelve constellations, but due to the division of day and night, the same twelve constellations are reckoned to be twenty-four and with respect to mansions of the moon, they are twenty-eight. Similarly, the Imam has twelve hujjats of islands (jaza'ir), who with respect to night and day, become twenty-four hujjats and together with the four closest (muqarrab) hujjats, become twenty-eight.
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