The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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So we say that the world of the unseen is perceived by the eye of insight, just as the world of witness is perceived by the eye of sight, and just as sight does not perceive the world of witness except darkness, unless the veil of oppression or similar obstacles is lifted from it. Then the obstacles are lifted and the lights are spread over the tangible things and the light of sight and the visible light are combined. The one who sees with sight perceives visible things. Likewise, the eye of insight veils thoughts, desires, and the observation of others from the dense natural world to such veils as these prevent him from perceiving the kingdom, I mean, the world of the unseen. So if a person turns to the mirror of his heart and purifies it with remembrance and recitation of the Qur’an, then he obtains from that light, and God has a light spread over all existing things. It is called The light of existence. If the two lights come together, then the unseen things are revealed as the

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It is that the light that extends from the Presence of Being over the world of the unseen in the existential presences does not encompass them all, nor does it extend over them regarding this Revealer except to the extent of what God Almighty desires, and that is the station of revelation. Our evidence of that for ourselves is our taste of it and for others, His saying, “Say.. I do not know what will be done to me or to you, if I follow except what is revealed to me with the utmost purity of Muhammad, which is his saying, or from behind a veil. No matter how much of that appears from someone who has happened in this situation on its surface against a person, that is prudence, which is the highest level of openness and its place. From the Book of God, verily, in that there are signs for those who are distinguished by the characteristic, which is the sign, as we said, and one should never make a mistake, unlike wise reasoning.

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And then another revelation in physiognomy, and that is that God placed in the world the presence of attributes, in which there are images of the sons of Adam and their conditions in their times until their separation, and it is hidden from all of the upper and lower creatures except from the pen and the tablet. So if God wanted to select a servant and assign him this position, He would purify his heart, explain it, and make In Him is an illuminating lamp from his faith, especially his lamp from the divine names, the dominant name of the Believer, and in his hand is this Presence, and that lamp from the Presence of Divinity is taken by the Name Believer. So, if the heart is illuminated by that divine light and the light spreads in the corners of his heart with the light of the eye of insight, such that he attains perception of perceptions through revelation and witnessing of the existence of these lights. If the heart attains what we mentioned, it places in one of the squares of t

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The fact that the creation in man and creation *** is like kohl in the eyes and kohl

And if his reward is doubled in it, then when *** will he attain the rank of angels and messengers ?

He is the only one by whom time lives *** for he is the arranger of rulings and states.

It descends from its glory by overwhelming its necks *** and it is He who confirms symptoms and illnesses

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The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: God would not forbid usury and take it from you

It is an authentic hadith, so he included himself with us in what he forbade us in ruling, for all morals are divine attributes, so all of them are honorable. They are all in the creation of man, and therefore he is addressed with them. Some who have no knowledge of the facts say that they are created in man, and in truth they are created. This is on the part of the one who says ignorance of matters, if he does not use that metaphorically or considering the precedence of the existence of truth over the existence of the servant, because it is necessary to exist for himself, and man exists in his Lord, so he benefits from existence. So creation benefited from it. If this principle was taken into account, then he said by creation, his purpose was correct. And if by creation he meant that what is for the truth is a reality and the servant was characterized

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