in any state other than this, one is facing the direction. If one has his back to the eastern of the two, he is slightly deviated to the West, and if one has his back to the western one, he is slightly deviated to the East. If one has his back to the Banat Na'sh, he is also facing the general direction, though his deviation is greater.

Section: The mansions of the sun and the moon are twenty-eight, which are: Al-Saratan, Al-Butayn, Al-Thurayya, Al-Dabaran, Al-Haq'ah, Al-Han'ah, Al-Dhir'a, Al-Nathrah, Al-Tarf, Al-Jabha, Al-Zubra, Al-Sarfa, Al-'Awwa', Al-Simak, Al-Ghafr, Al-Zubana, Al-Iklil, Al-Qalb, Al-Shawla, Al-Na'a'im, Al-Balda, Sa'd al-Dhabih, Sa'd Bula', Sa'd al-Su'ud, Sa'd al-Akhbiya, Al-Far' al-Muqaddam, Al-Far' al-Mu'akhkhar, and Batn al-Hut. Fourteen of these are Syrian, which rise from the middle of the East or slightly inclined toward the North; the first of them is Al-Saratan and the last of them is Al-Simak. Fourteen are Yemeni, which rise from the East or towards the southern direction; the first of them is Al-Ghafr, and the last of them is Batn al-Hut. For every star among the Syrian ones, there is a counterpart among the Yemeni ones; when one rises, its counterpart sets. The moon descends into one of these mansions every night, close to it, and then moves on the second night to the next mansion. Allah the Almighty said: {And the moon, We have decreed for it mansions, until it returns like the old curved stalk of a date palm} [Quran 36:39]. The sun descends into each mansion for thirteen days, and its return to the mansion it descended into occurs after the completion of one full cycle of the solar year. Among these mansions, there are fourteen between sunset and sunrise, and from sunrise to sunset there are the same number. The time of Fajr (dawn) consists of two mansions, and the time of Maghrib (sunset) is one mansion, which is half of a sixth of the darkness of the night. The darkness of the night is twelve mansions, and all of them rise from the East and set in the West, except that the first of the Syrian ones and the last of the Yemeni ones rise from the middle of the East, such that if one places the rising star among them aligned with his left shoulder, he would be