The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Who has a wife and no children, so what do you seek? They said, “O Lord, we are thirsty and have given us something to drink.” They will be told, “Will you not be sent back?” They will be gathered into the Fire as if it were a mirage crushing one another, and they will fall into the Fire. Then the Christians will be called and it will be said to them, “What did you worship?” They will say, “We used to worship Christ and say that he is the Son of God,” and they will be told. You have lied. God has neither a companion nor a son. And it will be said to them, “What do you seek?” They will say, “We are thirsty, O Lord, and we have become immoral.” He said, and it will be pointed out to them, “Will you not be returned?” They will be gathered into Hell as if it were a mirage crushing one another, and they will fall into the Fire until, when nothing remains except those who worshiped God, whether righteous or immoral, then the Lord of the Worlds will come to them. Blessed and Most High is

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From that is the knowledge of the name Al-Qayyum, and our companions disagreed about it as to whether one should imitate it or not. Sheikh Abu Abdullah bin Junaid Al-Qabr Fayqi was one of the major sheikhs of this order in Andalusia, and he was a Mu’tazilite. I heard him forbidding imitating oneself with it, and I negotiated with him about it many times in his place in the presence of his companions at Qabr Fayqi’s works and his peers. Until he returned to our saying about creation by the Ever-Living, like the rest of the divine names, and in it there is knowledge of the creation of the unseen world, and in it is knowledge of the quantifications of the unseen world, and in it is knowledge of describing the words of God sequentially, and in it is knowledge of the descending of spirits and the heaviness and distress of the soul that those who descend on them will find, and I was isolated in the graves for a period of time alone by myself. I was informed that our Sheikh Yusuf bin Yak

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