The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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The men of confusion are the ones who looked at these signs and investigated them to the utmost investigation until that look led them to the inability and confusion of a prophet or a friend .

He, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said, O God, increase my confusion in you.

> For whenever the truth increases his knowledge of it, that knowledge increases his confusion, especially the people of revelation, due to the differences in their forms among the witnesses. They are more confused than those who examine the evidence in a way that does not converge.

The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said after he had exerted his effort to Praise be to His Creator for what He revealed to Him. I cannot praise you as much as you have praised yourself.

Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, may God be pleased with him, said in this regard, and one of his men was the inability to realize awareness, that is, if you know that then there is one who does not know. Th

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So conclusive rational evidence was established that He is one God according to the people of theorizing and the people of revelation, there is no god but Him. Then after this rational evidence of His monotheism and the necessary rational knowledge of His existence, we saw that the people of the path of God Almighty, from the Messenger, the Prophet, and the saint, had brought matters of knowledge regarding the attributes of God on their way to referring them. The rational evidence was confirmed by the prophetic words and the divine news, so the people of the path searched for these meanings in order to obtain from them something that distinguishes them from the theoreticians who stopped where their thoughts reached them while verifying the truthfulness of the news, so they said, “We know that there is another phase behind the phase of understanding the mind that is independent of it, and it is for the prophets and the great saints.” Through it, they accept these matters entrusted

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So this group worked to gain something of what was reported in the divine news from the side of the truth, and they began to refine their hearts with remembrances and recitation of the Qur’an, clearing the place of looking at what is possible, being present, and observing, while purifying the apparent by staying within the legitimate limits of lowering one’s gaze from the matters that it is forbidden to look at. To her from the private parts and other things, and sending him to the things that give him consideration and insight, as well as his hearing, his tongue, his hand, his feet, his stomach, his private parts, his heart, and what then is in his outward appearance except these seven, and the heart is the eighth of them, and he removes contemplation from himself altogether, for it separates his concerns and secludes himself in observing his heart at the door of his Lord. Perhaps God will open the door for him. To him, and he knows what he did not know, what the Messengers and t

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