The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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It applies its rulings according to the circumstances and the situation, and among the descriptions of lovers is grief, which is the most intense sadness of the heart, with no tears flowing with it, except that the one who experiences it groans and sighs a lot, and it is a sadness that he finds in himself, neither for what was missed nor for any shortcomings. This is the unknown sadness that is one of the descriptions of lovers for which it has no cause. Except love in particular, and there is no cure for it except connection with the beloved, so his preoccupation with him eliminates the feeling of distress. And if the connection with the beloved does not occur, connection with entities, then the beloved is one of those who command him, and carrying out his commands and his joy in doing so distracts him from distress. Most of the distress occurs if nothing occurs between him and the beloved that distracts him from himself, and the lover does not have a quality. It disappears with

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From that is following His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, in what He legislated. God Almighty said, “Say, ‘If you love God, then follow me, God will love you.’ Know that God has two loves, or attaching His love to His servants, which is the specificity of the will of attachment. The first is His love for them, beginning with that love. He guided them to follow following His Messengers. May God’s peace be upon them all.” Then that following produced for them two attachments of love, because the following occurred in two ways, from the aspect of performing the obligatory duties, and the other attachment from the aspect of adhering to the voluntary prayers.

He, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said, in what he narrated on the authority of his Lord, the Almighty, that he said the hadith, and in it, and what draws near to My servant. With something more beloved to Me than performing what I have made obligatory upon him, my servant continues to draw ne

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