Ayat an-Nur
The Lichtvers (Arabic آية النور Ayat an-Nur ) is a verse (35 ) of the 24th sura of the Koran, after which the whole Sura is named. The verse is like the largest part of Sura dated to the year 626.
Text
Arabic original version:
« ٱلله نور ٱلسموت وٱلأرض مثل نوره كمشكوة فيہا مصباح ٱلمصباح فى زجاجة ٱلزجاجة كأنہا كوكب درى يوقد من شجرة مبركة زيتونة لا شرقية ولا غربية يكاد زيتہا يضىء ولو لم تمسسه نار نور على نور يہدى ٱلله لنوره من يشآء ويضرب ٱلله ٱلأمثل للناس وٱلله بكل شىء عليم »
Translation of Adel Theodor Khoury:
" God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. His light is a niche comparable, in which is a lamp. The lamp is in a glass. The glass is as it were a brightly shining star. It is lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the east nor west, whose oil almost glows, even without that the fire had touched it. Light upon light. God guides to His light whom He pleases, and God leads man to the parables. And Allah knows all things. "
Transmission by Friedrich Rückert:
"God is the light of heaven and earth, Is a likeness of His light As a Nish ', in which a light, The lamp is in a glass, The glass is like a shining star, The lighted by the blessing tree, The olive tree is not from the east nor from the west; The oil itself nearly lit wenns Also, do not touch the flame; Light upon light - Allah guides His light whom He will: But God set forth parables to men, And God is aware of every thing. "
Importance
The Lichtvers acts in particular as inspiration for Sufism, Islamic mysticism.
It is a parable ( مثال Mital ), the comparison between the light of God and the light of a lamp in a niche.
Partly also an allusion to the Christian worship in churches and monasteries and the Occupied with lights altar is assumed.
The light of God means his guidance ( as Ibn ʽ Abbās ), which he created order in heaven and on earth ( as al - Basri ), or his care.
The word for " niche " ( مشكاة Miska (t)) is a borrowing from the Ethiopian (cf. Amharic መስኮት, maskot 'window' ).
The olive tree which is "neither east nor west " is, is a tree of paradise ( as al - Basri ), or understood as a tree on a hill, which is illuminated not only from the east or the west, but from all sides with sunlight ( Ibn ʽ Abbās - so ).
From al - Gazzali the philosophical treatise comes The Niche of Lights ( miskat al - Anwar ).