The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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And know that if God gives these knowledge to the servant in a form other than that and teaches him what He intends by it, and he sees its eye from that form in that form, then he is likened to a basin because he perceives the water and perceives the turbidity that is at the bottom of the basin and wears the water, and the color of that turbidity must be red in the eyes of the observer. Whether or not it is yellow or whatever color it is, then you see the water being red or yellow and other colors. This is why Al-Junaid said, when he was asked about knowledge and the knower, that he said, “The color of the water is the color of its vessel.” When the water received this color, it became in the eye a mixture of different colors and colors, and in the same matter it is something else. So he knows the water and knows that that is the color of the vessel. Likewise, the manifestations in the divine manifestations, wherever they are. As for the knower, he always perceives them, and the m

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