The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Then it was said to him, “If you are an heir, you will only inherit the truth.” He said, “How can the truth bequeathed?” He said, “If you bear witness to the truth, it is sufficient for the worlds, for he has left them. This is a divine legacy that no one can inherit except you. If you are the owner of these witnesses, then you will know from this inheritance what you did not know before him from the world.” Then It was said to him: Do not confuse matters, and revealed everything where you revealed its truth, so do not say, “There is no one but God,” even if He were like that, and He is like that. Haven’t the rational ranks distinguished between His being like this and His being like that, and the eye is one, as you say, but He is from such-and-such a matter, and from such-and-such is another matter, and I see you. You feel pain and run away from it, so what is it that called you to something from it? You run away and I see you feeling pleasure and I see you losing what you were a

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And know that when God endowed the mind with the soul to produce children, not to obtain the pleasure of creation, He placed it in the natural land, which affected its mood, as the land changed what was planted in it to its natural nature. Keep your mind on the Almighty’s saying: It is watered with one water, and the earth is one, and the tastes, smells, and colors differ. If we say about honey It is sweet and delicious, so you see some mixtures that you feel pain in, but do not enjoy, and you find it bitter, as well as

smells and colors. We saw this difference due to perceptions, not to things, so we saw them as ratios that have no reality in their essence except in terms of their essence. Then it was said to him: Stop at the additions and ratios, and he stumbles. On the matter as it is, then it was said to him: O God, then know where you were called from, where you have been, why you were called, and who called you and what called you, so be according to what you have me

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