The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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He who believes that existence is nothing but the essence of reality, from his essence, causes are not created by him. However, when he appeared in the eyes of those looking at him in various forms, he was judged to be so by the rulings of the essences of possible things. He appeared to be defective by virtue of the accident that was presented, not the eyes of those looking at him, and he in himself is on What it is, just as forms of colors are exposed to the light in the eye of the beholder, while in itself it is not coloured. This is what is correct again and is defective. As for relying on metaphors because they are the most well-known of knowledge, reliance can only be on what is known for the sake of specification. If it were objectionable, it would not be distinguished or identified, so reliance is on what is not supported, and nouns are not. The power of metonymies is strengthened, so the one who relies on metonymies will not be disappointed, and the one who relies on names

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Of what is in addition to the fundamentals, such as voluntary acts of worship with the obligatory prayers, know that it is not called excess what is required by the essence due to the perfection of its reality. Whatever is in addition to what He gave to every thing His creation is additional, and if it is non-existent, the thing that is non-existent is not affected by its non-existence, and if it exists, it does not increase what is in it in itself at all. It is like the conditions among people of high status. If it exists among them, it does not increase their status, and if it does not exist, its absence does not decrease their status. Therefore, they are gifts.

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Know that the divine supply of existing things is not interrupted, and if it is shortened, it is from the acceptor, not from the provider, and if the lack of supply in a specific matter is added to the right, then that shortness is the supply of interest in the right of that forbidden, for He knows the interests of creatures, and for this reason those who know God should not specify a need when asked. And let them ask for what is good for them without specifying. How many people ask for an eye. When I fulfilled his need for wisdom that God knows, he was overcome with regret after that for what he had appointed and wished that it had not been appointed. Supply is a merciful breath, and divine supply in existents is natural and an auction. The natural is what is urgently needed for the sustenance of itself and to ward off the pain of doing it. And the auction is what is more than this, which he does not need in himself. This is if he is one of the people of God who believe in irriga

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If two people of knowledge meet in the presence of God, what is their ruling? This is an issue that our Sheikh Yusuf bin Yakhlaf al-Kumi asked me about in the year five hundred and eighty-six. I said to him, sir, this is an issue that is imposed and does not occur unless the manifestation is in the presence of the proverb, like the vision of a sleeper or the situation of an event. As for the truth, it does not happen. Because the presence does not accommodate two people such that someone else can bear witness with her, rather her own eye does not bear witness in that presence, so it is more appropriate for an additional eye to witness, but this can be imagined in the manifestation of the example, so if they come together.

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