The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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God, that is a sign to the one who has no revelation that the world has a moral connection with God in one sense and a separation in one sense, for it is from the reality of His essence, divinity, and effectiveness, connected and separated from one aspect, that same aspect because He does not multiply, even if His rulings and names and the intelligibles of His names are many, then the connection between Him is created by Him with His own hands is what prevents you. That you should prostrate to that which I have created with My hands. We have created for them cattle from what Our hands have made, and they are their owners. And His separation is the separation of divinity from worship. There is no god but He, the Mighty, through His separation, the Wise, through His connection. But formation from the world is only eternal. His prayer, not his separation, and the world is what God has assigned him to do of worship, and that is why He added its deeds to the servant He commanded him to

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And know, may God help you, that in this house of knowledge there is the knowledge of veiling related to what is veiled, for excessive proximity is a veil like excessive distance, and in it is the knowledge of the servant sitting with his Lord when he mentions it, and the people of remembrance in it are divided into those who know that he is sitting with the Truth while the Truth mentions him, and to those who do not know that and for the reason. His ignorance of his sitting with his Lord is that he does not know his Lord, so he does not recognize it, or that he does not know that his Lord remembered him due to his deafness and blurring of his sight. The correct rememberer knows when his Lord remembers him, and if he does not know of witnesses to sitting with his Lord and others, he knows that and his companion bears witness. So just as the Truth is the sitter of the one who mentions Him, so is the servant the companion of the Truth. If his Lord remembers him and only a servant si

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