thus identifying Allah’s prophets—Adam, Jesus, John, Joseph, Idrīs, Moses, and Abraham—with the celestial bodies: the moon, Venus, Mercury, the sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and offering similar interpretations that every Muslim knows were not intended by the Messenger and are among the gravest fabrications against Allah and His Messenger.

This is of the same kind as the Rāfidah’s interpretations of the pearls and coral in the sea as al-Hasan and al-Husayn, and of “the clear register” and “the tidings