The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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The essence of its origin, and it is a pleasant knowledge, for it is true speech from truth, but understandings differ regarding it, for He says to the forms, “If He wills, He will take you away and bring about a new creation,” meaning, “If He wills, He will witness you at all times.” He brought forth the new creation from which God took your eyes. For the matter is thus in Himself, and the people are from Him in Wearing, except for the people of revelation and existence. If you say, then you said of the survival of the essence of the substance, we say that its survival is not for its essence, but rather its survival of the forms that occur in it, so the lack of it to God is always permanent. The essence is its poverty to God for survival and the forms are poverty to God for their existence. So everything is in the essence of poverty to God, and God is the Rich, the Praiseworthy. That is, the one who is praised with the quality of being independent of the world, and in this level

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