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It does not behove - it is [neither] facilitated nor is it right for - the sun to catch up with the moon, and so appear together with it at night, nor may the night outrun the day, and thus it [the night] never arrives before the latter ends and each (kullun: the nunation compensates for the [missing] genitive annexation [that would have been constructed] with al-shams, 'the sun', al-qamar, 'the moon', and al-nujūm, 'the stars') [of these] is in an orbit, swimming, moving - these [celestial bodies] are being treated as [though they were] rational beings.