The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Custom and knowledge, and the meaning is knowledge and law, not custom. He wanted to see his ruling in the purpose, for prostration in custom is after the height required of God. Do you not see Ibn Ata’ when a man sank with his camel, so he said, “Glory be to God,” and the camel said, “Glory be to God.” He did not dive except to seek his Lord, for it is the prostration of a portion of that limb to God. When the camel saw Ibn Ata’’s ignorance of God in the man’s request to his Lord by diving, the camel, Glory be to God, said, “If your knowledge confines him, he will have nothing in your contract except the high. So whoever guards the lower, and I am a man, I am not a head, so he must I seek my Lord with my truth and nothing but prostration

The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: If you were to drop a rope, it would fall on God

This is exactly what Al-Jamal said, so whoever prostrates will necessarily approach God, and the prostra

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I am not ignorant of the one who takes over *** to whom he will turn.

If only he had seen him He saw him *** whoever was looking down from him

And if he had seen him from the beginning *** with his own eye, he would not have turned away

Then no one is appointed except Him *** for it is He who has taken charge.

So who will taste torment ** * From him if he takes charge

Whoever likes the saying to me *** We will give him what he takes over.

If you are given matters *** and if you have them, then take them over

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God Almighty said, “Entrust to him what he assumed. Know that God has supported us and you with a spirit from Him, that turning away from the remembrance that is added to God. God did not call turning away from Him individually, rather He added to it His saying, “And He did not intend anything except the life of this world.” In sum, the Almighty Truth commanded His Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, if he did so by turning away. The knowledgeable person produces this remembrance that is contrary to what is understood by him in general, for God has extreme closeness to the servant, Glory be to Him, as He said, “And we are closer to Him than our jugular vein.” And the life of this world is nothing but the servant’s bliss with his Lord, with the utmost closeness that befits His majesty. God, if the remembrancer comes and calls for remembrance, and this one who is called hears him and is concerned about him, so he witnesses the remembrance at the remembrance in his worldl

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Pray to your Lord or by His command, and you will be *** among those to whom the Most Gracious speaks in full.

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