Sun and moon
object · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
al-qamar · al-shams · gold-dust upon the late afternoon · moon · qamar · shams · sun · sun and moon · the moon · the sun
spoken of as
1 expressionThe sun and the moon1 mention
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq (Arabic)
and as in your saying of the sun, “the sun's brow appeared”, “everything put on its shadow for a sandal”, “it shook out gold-dust upon the late afternoon”, “it bound its saddle for departure”;
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
The sun and moon, described as the watchmen of the world whose regular motion taught humans the fixed order of the seasons.
Unto mankind that seasons of the years
But sun and moon, those watchmen of the world,
After a fixed plan and order fixed.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The two great luminaries, named in the cosmological hierarchy and, for the sun, in the verse on garments.
Rather, that you should know that the world, from its throne to its floor, is made subservient to your body:
Though a copper coin be above the worth of my garment — yet within it I have a soul beneath whose worth all mankind falls Your garment is a sun with darkness beneath its rays — and my garment a night with the sun beneath its gloom
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Sun and moon, the standing matter of Arabic metaphor, used to demonstrate signification by concomitance in rhetorical speech.
and as in your saying of the sun, “the sun's brow appeared”, “everything put on its shadow for a sandal”, “it shook out gold-dust upon the late afternoon”, “it bound its saddle for departure”;
as in your saying, “his speech is pearls”, “his knowledge a sea”, “his bounty a raincloud”, “his face the moon”, “long of sword-belt”, “abundant of ashes”, and “his house was robbed” — and all that is of this sort among metaphors and metonymies