The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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So he knows that no one can bear that, and that God’s decree is great, lofty, and noble for anyone to appreciate it, so that leads him to consider himself and the strength God has given him in that, when he knows that God’s decree is not within the power of a creature to fulfill it, and he hears God say, “God does not burden a soul except And He said, “Except what He has given it,” and He said, “As much as you are able.” So he was concerned about fulfilling God’s right to the extent of his ability and what is within his power. The servants of God differ in this into two types, according to the extent of what is revealed to them of the majesty of God and according to the extent of their dispositions. God has made man’s soul and mind in accordance with the disposition of his body, for man’s soul is It does not perceive anything except through the mediation of these powers that God installed in this creation, for it is to the soul like a machine. If the machine is upright on the corr

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Know that the discomfort of desire depends on what you love and desire, and it is of two types: imaginary and unimaginable, and the imaginable is of two types. The one type is what he perceives with some or all of his senses, or he perceives it through information, so he interpreted it as what is familiar from the description of Paradise and what is in it, and the imaginable is what he desires for. In terms of the totality, which is what Paradise contains or includes, of what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human heart has ever heard, it has been heard that it contains this. Such a thing cannot be imagined. Whenever he imagines it, it crosses a human heart. This is not in the nature of the soul. It likes to know what has not been. You know, she loves more, of course, except that her attachment to what she gets more of is different. The one she adores, she seeks more from him, not from anything else. If the one who desires is possessed of love for God, then he must either

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