5.4. 'The Fourth Day' of Creation (al-arba a , Wednesday):
For Wednesday he says that 'the motion of the Fourth Day came into existence from the (divine) Attribute of Willing (al-irada), so there is no part of the world but that it is seeking to glorify the One Who gives it existence [II.438.11].
Mercury is in the sixth sphere from the earth, and this heaven was created through the (self-disclosure of the) divine Name 'the Enumerator' (al-Muhsi). Allah created this heaven, its planet (Mercury), the Fourth Day (Wednesday), and letter ta' ( ) in the lunar mansion of the constellation Zabana (which is the sixteenth station of the twenty-eight moon stations), and He caused Jesus to dwell there [paraphrasing II.445 26].


