How can your statement that the stars are not a cause of what happens on Earth be reconciled with your statement that ignorance is profound and the harm greater than the benefit in imagining that celestial movements are the cause of events, knowing that attributing the falling of rain to a specific star is minor shirk, and can a star be a cause without us stating that due to our ignorance?
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The statement you mentioned is taken from the words of Ibn Taymiyyah, and it does not establish causality for the movement of stars and celestial spheres. Rather, it is a statement based on the premise of their established existence. The most that can be said is that the rising of a star may be a sign of the time for rain, not a cause for it.
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