Harran Sabiîleri ve Hermes: Yıldızların Tek Sebebe İman Eden Kadim Öğretisi

An account from the handwriting of Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib regarding their affairs, which he narrated from al-Kindi: The people are in agreement that the world has a Cause that is eternal, one, not manifold. The attributes of any of the created effects do not attach to Him. He tasked the discerning among His creatures to acknowledge His Lordship, clarified the path for them, and sent messengers to indicate [the truth] and to confirm the argument. He commanded them to call to His pleasure and warn of His anger. He promised those who obeyed a bliss that does not cease, and threatened those who disobeyed with a punishment and retribution according to their deserts, then that [punishment] ceases. It has been narrated from some of their early figures that he said: God punishes for nine thousand cycles, then they return to the mercy of God. These people are those who were called to God and to the Hanifiyya by which they swear. Their famous figures and luminaries are Arani, Agathodaemon, Hermes, and some of them mention Solon, the grandfather of Plato the philosopher. For the community and the call, these people are all one; their customs and laws are not different. They made their qibla one, turning it toward the North Pole.