The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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He honored her with a secret that only the people of God know, for it is one of the secrets reserved for them. Just as the punishment brings them together, so the place brings them together for their own sake, God Almighty willing. God Almighty said regarding those who are divided, “Indeed, your Lord does what He wills,” and He did not say “unseverable punishment,” as He said about the happy ones, for he said, O man, and he did not specifically specify any one person. Rather, it appears that he meant the one who disobeyed his command and disobeyed him absolutely, not the one who obeyed him. He did not deceive you with your Lord, the Generous. So he alerted the heedless person to the characteristic of the truth, which is his generosity, for it is from his generosity that he brought it into being. That is why he said to him, “He who created you, fashioned you, and made you equal.” He says to him. By His generosity, He created you so that the servant might say to him, O Lord,

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Among them is the number of takbirs, and the first Sadr differed in that from three to seven, and what is in between due to the difference in the effects.

A hadith was reported that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to say takbir at the funeral four, five, six, seven, and eight times, and it was reported that he said takbir three times when he died. Al-Najashi, may God bless him and grant him peace, prayed for him four times, and continued on four until God Almighty took his death.

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The maximum number of obligatory prayers is four, and there is no bowing in funeral prayers, rather it is all standing, and every standing in it to read has a takbir, so he says takbir four times after completing the number of obligatory rak’ahs of prayer. The first takbir of the ihram in which it is forbidden to ask for forgiveness for this dead person except God Almighty and the takbir. The second is that God Almighty is glorified by the fact that He is alive and does not die if every soul will taste death and everything will perish except His face. The third is glorified by His generosity and mercy in accepting intercession for the right of those who intercede for Him or ask about Him, such as praying for the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, when he died, and it was our custom. Whoever asks God for the means for him, intercession is permissible for him. The Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, does not intercede on his behalf for the one who praye

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As for raising the hands at every takbeer and holding them together, there is a difference of opinion regarding them, and there is no doubt that raising the hands signals lack in every state of takbeer. He says, “We have nothing in our hands. We have raised it to you in every state in which there is nothing and you do not possess anything.

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As for being self-sufficient, it is an intercessor, and the intercessor is a questioner, and asking is a state of humiliation and lack in what he is asking about, whether that question is for himself or for the right of others. The one who asks for the right of another is a representative in his questioning of that other person, so he must stand in a position of humility and need for what he lacks. In it, shouldering is a characteristic of humility and its description is placing one hand over the other by grasping the back of the hand, the wrist, and the forearm, so it is similar to taking a covenant to bring the hands together, the hand of covenants and covenants, that is, you took a covenant with us to call upon you, and we took a covenant from you with your generosity in answering us, so you said, “And if My servants ask you about Me, then I am near, and I will answer the call of the supplicant when He supplicated and did not say, “He supplicated to me” for himself or for anyon

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