Chapter 25
February 1061 (453 from Hegira, month of Muḥarram), palace of Mohammed ibn al-Thumnann
Someone say that the Principle created the cosmos by dividing it into two components of equal strength, of equal size, but of opposite value. The light and the darkness, which chase each other in the day and in the night, the earth of men and the heaven of the divine, good and evil. Therefore, if a single act of good disrupts the universe, another of opposite value recreates the lost balance.
Although all this reasoning is the result of human philosophies, outside of logic, extraneous to the concept of a God who exclusively dispenses good, in Nadira's case it seemed to find acceptance. In fact, that universe, which were her eyes, could only attract both forces of creation. On the one hand,
