The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Indeed, I have been touched by harm and taught to ask that it not happen in the future unless it happens immediately, by saying, “They said, ‘And do not burden us with what we cannot bear,’ and related to it is bad etiquette. Resisting divine oppression and resisting the master’s slave in a matter is immorality of morals, because that is not part of morals.” Characteristics of worship: If the servant is weak, he should seek help from his fellow believer in this, and the other must help him with teaching and consolation, for the believer is very supportive of his brother, and if a person is alone in his concern, it is great for him, and if he finds someone to bring it to him to share it, comfort him, and ease it from him, then the other helps him, he listens well to him in whatever concern is presented to him and responds to it. With what pleased him in that and his participation in showing his pain for what he suffered, that is the sincere and helpful friend, as was said.

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If our souls are ignorant of their own knowledge*** then that is death and bodies are graves

And if you know, then the gathering therein will be confirmed *** and for that reason it will be published

For knowledge is nothing but between light and darkness *** and every speech other than that is false < /p>

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Know that death is the separation of the soul from the body in which it had its sensory life, and it occurred to them after they were described by the coming together, which is the cause of life. Likewise, the death of the soul due to lack of knowledge. If you say that knowledge of God is contingent, which is the life of souls, and ignorance is established for it before the existence of knowledge, then how? The ignorant person is described as death, and what is preceded by knowledge. We said that knowledge of God preceded every human being’s soul in taking covenant when he made them bear witness to themselves. When the souls inhabited the natural bodies in this world, knowledge of the oneness of God separated from them, so the souls remained dead through ignorance of the oneness of God. Then after that, God revived some souls with knowledge of the oneness of God and gave them life. They are all due to knowledge of the existence of God, since it is a necessity for the mind to know

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Know that one of the characteristics of this house is that one’s knowledge of multiplicity necessitates ignorance of himself because multiplicity is witnessed to him, and that is because the spirit does not intellect itself except with this body, the place of quantity and multiplicity, and it has never witnessed itself alone despite being in itself undivided and does not know its humanity except by the presence of it. The body is with him, and for this reason, when he is asked about his definition and reality, he says: A nourishing, sensitive, speaking body: This is the reality of man alone, the psychological self, so he takes forever in his definition. If he is asked about him because he is a human being, this is so numerous, then he does not understand his oneness in himself, but rather understands the oneness of the genus, not the true oneness, and what happens to him by acquisition is that he is one. In its essence is the science of intellectual evidence, not the knowledge of

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