allah is the light of the heavens and the earth. the parable of his light is as if there were a niche and within it a lamp the lamp enclosed in glass the glass as it were a brilliant star lit from a blessed tree an olive neither of the east nor of the west whose oil is wellnigh luminous though fire scarce touched it light upon light! allah doth guide whom he will to his light allah doth set forth parables for men and allah doth know all things.
الله نور السماوات والأرض مثل نوره كمشكاة فيها مصباح المصباح في زجاجة الزجاجة كأنها كوكب دري يوقد من شجرة مباركة زيتونة لا شرقية ولا غربية يكاد زيتها يضيء ولو لم تمسسه نار نور على نور يهدي الله لنوره من يشاء ويضرب الله الأمثال للناس والله بكل شيء عليم