21) had it not been that the messenger of god may god bless him and grant him peace condemned the arabs doctrines regarding the signs which indicates that the signs have no role in clouds winds and rain it would have been permissible for someone who thinks that the arabs are more numerous in this to think that the signs have a role in rain like the winds role in creating clouds sending down rain and pollinating trees and like the moons role in the ebb and flow. these are things that god almighty has subjected and described creation with so they are no longer what they were subjected to and the actions are added to them and the action is god almightys in them. and all of these twentyeight have signs except that some of them are better and more abundant in their view and they are more persistent in mentioning them like the pleiades sign and the leos signs.
٢١) ولولا أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ذم مذاهب العرب فى الأنواء، فدل ذلك على أنه لا عمل للنوء فى السحاب والرياح والمطر، لساغ للظان باكثار العرب فى هذا أن يظن أن للنوء عملا فى المطر كعمل الريح فى إنشاء السحاب واستنزال المطر وإلقاح الشجره، وكعمل القمر فى المد والجزر وهذه اشياء سخرها الله عز وجل ووصف الخلق بها، فلم تعد ما سخرت له، والأفعال مضافة إليها، والفعل/ لله عز وجل بها. وكل هذه الثمانية والعشرين لها نوء، غير أن بعضها عندهم أحمد وأغزر، وهم بذكره ألهج؛ كنوء الثريا، وأنواء نجوم الأسد.