The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 26 · Page 262

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It contains knowledge of why those denying the return deny it, what return is denied, and the denier's attribute.

(Mercy, Increase, and Intermediation)

It contains knowledge that things have a single relation to God. How, then, did mercy precede wrath until mercy encompassed every thing, leaving wrath no locus in which to appear?

It contains knowledge of the Real's guides; and knowledge of producing the world from the world. Why (and to what) does its increase and decrease return? One must know a perfection or completeness through which what exceeds it and what falls short are distinguished. Is every increase beyond completeness a deficiency, or not?

It contains knowledge of whether two adjacent affairs exist without an intermediary, like the unseen and the witnessed, negation and affirmation, or our saying, ‘You are not you,’ and ‘You did not cast when you cast’ [al-Anfāl 8:17].

It contains knowledge of the affair through which God preserves the legally responsible person in his entity and acts.

(The World's Perfection and Transformation)

It contains knowledge of the world's perfection, admitting no increase. Nothing not previously manifest appears within it except what departed from it and returns to it. An affair appears within it that was not within it, although it is from it. After the world's completeness, nothing appears within it except the world. God's command within it is one. This is what is expressed as transformations.

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