He never sets

فَلَمَّا رَأَى الشَّمْسَ بَازِغَةً قَالَ هَٰذَا رَبِّي هَٰذَا أَكْبَرُ فَلَمَّا أَفَلَتْ قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ إِنِّي بَرِيءٌ مِّمَّا تُشْرِكُونَ

“When he (Prophet Ibrahim) saw the sun rising up, he said: "This is my lord. This is greater." But when it set, he said: "O my people! I am indeed free from all that you join as partners in worship with God.” -6:78

In a few consecutive verses in this chapter, Prophet Ibrahim is showing his people that the stars, the moon, and the sun cannot possibly be God. But what’s most interesting to me is the reason he gives them for this impossibility. In each separate mention of the stars, moon, and sun, he says they cannot be God only after witnessing them vanish. What does that tell us about the one true God? That He never sets, never leaves us, and always remains. A Creator who cares is consistently there, with a presence that never escapes us. And Prophet Ibrahim understood that.