The Single Monad Model of the Cosmos

We have already discussed Ibn Arabi's concept of the 'day' in Chapter II, where we showed that he defines the 'day' as all that is included within the revolution of the Isotropic Orb, which encompasses all of material existence. This day is astronomically defined by the rotation of the earth and it is conventionally divided into smaller units such as hours, minutes and seconds (see also section IV.6). The divine Day, however, is the corresponding effects (manifestations) of each of the seven fundamental divine Names on the entire cosmos, as we shall see further below (section 4). This unique divine Day is in fact the smallest indivisible unit of time, though it equals in length the normal day as we discussed in section II.15.