allah is the light of the heavens and the earth the likeness of his light is as a niche wherein is a lamp the lamp is in glass the glass is as though it were a star brilliant lit from a tree blest an olive neither in the east nor in the west wellnigh its oil would glow forth even though fire touch it not. light upon light. allah guideth unto his light whomsoever he will and allah propoundeth similitudes for mankind verily allah is of everything the knower.
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