An-Nūr - God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth

An-Nūr is the visible One by means of whom all visibility exists. For that which itself is visible and makes others visible is called a light. When existence is contrasted with non-existence, (it becomes obvious that) visibility pertains to existence and that there is no darkness darker than non-existence. That which is free of the darkness of non-existence, rather from the possibility of non-existence, and brings everything (else) from the darkness of non-existence to the visibility of existence is worthy of being called light. Existence is a light which flows freely upon all things from the light of His essence. Therefore He “is the light of the heavens and the earth”. Just as there is not a particle of the light of the sun which does not point to the existence of the illuminating sun, so also there is not a particle of all the things that exist in the heavens and the earth and that which is between them which does not by the (mere) possibility of its existence point to the necessary existence of its creator.