The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Then we say that if the hand is on something that the Sharia rules that it is usurped, or that it was stolen, or that it was betrayed, and everything that the Shariah has not permitted her to dispose of, and the differences in these cases are clear, then it is obligatory to purify her from all of this, and it will be stated by what she purifies. In its proper place, God willing, this purity is obligatory for her. As for the purity that is recommended for it, it is abandoning what is in the hand of this world that it is permissible for him to hold, so the law enjoins him to take it out of his hand out of a desire for what is with God, and that is asceticism, and it is a trade, for it has a compensation from God for what it left out, and abandonment is higher. Of constipation, and this is a matter of consensus in every religion and law, both legally and rationally. People are unanimously agreed that asceticism in this world, abandoning the collection of its debris, and departing fro

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As for their disagreement regarding the necessity of washing it from sleep in general, and regarding those who limit that to the night’s sleep, know that the night is occultation because it is the place of concealment, and that is why He made the night a covering, and the day a testimony because it is the place of appearance and movement, and that is why He made it a livelihood for seeking virtue, which means seeking sustenance here from His face, for the virtue that is sought is from increase and from Honor, which is the increase of virtues, for he collects what he does not have as sustenance, so it is curiosity because he collects it for his heir or for someone else. If a person’s sustenance is what he collects, it is what he is nourished with. Know that the sleeper is undoubtedly in the world of the unseen, and if sleeping is at night, then it is an unseen in the unseen, so his ruling is stronger, and sleeping during the day. He is absent in testimony, so his ruling is weaker.

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Since the sleeper, while asleep, does not know anything of the apparent matters in the world of testimony against people, sleep is pure ignorance, except in the case of one whose eyes sleep but whose heart does not sleep, such as the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and whoever God wills from his heirs, immediately and when it is day. It clarifies things and shows the forms of their essence and makes clear to the pious what he avoids from harmful matters and what he does not fear is similar to knowledge, for knowledge is what explains the ruling of Sharia on things, and since the sleeper during the day is characterized by ignorance because of his sleep, because sleep is one of the opposites of knowledge, he may extend his hand while he has no knowledge or his foot and spoil something. If he was awake and not exposed to his corruption, the Sharia obliges him to purify the teacher from the sleep of ignorance if he wakes up, and he knows by his wakefulness the

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