The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Just as poverty is preferred to God over richness in God, some of our sheikhs told me Abdullah Al-Qalfat on Turaif Island in the year five hundred and ninety, and there was discussion between us about the comparison between the rich and the poor, I mean the grateful rich and the patient poor, and it is a tabloid issue, and he was drawn into that in the case of poverty and wealth, so he said to me, “I attended some one.” The sheikhs told it to me on the authority of Abu Al-Rabi’, the blind man Al-Maliki, a student of Abu Al-Abbas bin Al-Arif Al-Sanhaji. He said, “If two men each had ten dinars, and one of them gave one dinar in charity from the ten, and the other gave nine dinars from the ten he had, which one is better?” Those present said, “Who gave the nine in charity?” He said, “What do you prefer?” They said to him, “Because he gave in charity more than what his friend gave in charity.” He said, “Good, but you have missed the spirit of the issue and missed you.” It was said to

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This is not denied by those who know the positions and conditions, for the people did not stop with the wages, but rather they stopped with the facts and conditions and what revelation gives, and in this way they were preferred over the scholars of drawings, and if he believed everything and remained on its original basis, he would have nothing higher, so his decrease in rank and taste is in proportion to what he adheres to. Do you not see what our Sheikh Abu al-Abbas al-Sabti, may God have mercy on him, said about the dying person, bequeathing a third, for the dying person has only a third of the money he owns, so he went out of what he owned and did not have anything left over, and the law permitted him to give in charity the entire third that he owned, and he is praiseworthy in that according to the law, so he met God as poor according to the rule of principle. Just as he left him, he returned to him empty-handed. Some of them said in this sense .

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The one who knows God is dying, and in his soul, if he were able to speak, he would benefit people’s knowledge of their Lord, and he has reasoned his tongue, so he conveyed to a student a question about useful knowledge, such as monotheism and other things, and it benefited the listeners present. For that dying knower will reap its fruit, and the student will reap the fruit of transmitting it to God, and God will reward the dead with it as an obligatory reward, for it Of his striving, God says that man has nothing but what he strives for, and the best of what a man has eaten is from his earnings, even if his children are from his earnings, and the student is undoubtedly a religious child, so whatever man strives for is his with God through the divine obligation that he has imposed on himself .

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As for what someone else did on his behalf by virtue of representation, about which the dead person did not give permission, did not recommend it, and does not have the right to do anything about it, then God gives him that status if someone else gives it to him, so the dead person takes it, not by way of divine obligation, but it is obligatory for him to take it, and it is inevitable, because he came to it without question and in good faith. The authentic hadith: Whatever comes to you without asking for his thigh, and what does not, do not follow it yourself. A scent of that has been mentioned in the science of drawings in what

was narrated by Muslim on the authority of Aisha, that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, a man came to him and said, O Messenger of God, my mother has lost herself. She did not make a will, and I think that if she had spoken, she would have given in charity. Would she have two rewards if she gave in charity on her behalf?

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God Almighty said: Just as He began you, you will return, and you have already known the first beginning. And if you do not remember, and we began without an example, and we taught that, so He will bring us back without an example .

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Know that among the reward of the hereafter and man’s relationship to it is the knowledge of the afterlife, and it is not unlikely for a person to be in different places in the same time. This is something that minds can refer to and the validity of which is attested by revelation. It is impossible with reason and not impossible with a divine relationship. Every worshiper speaks to his Lord, and man is a created being in terms of his reality. Which he grew up in the afterlife in the image

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The knower is with many of the divine names in different situations, with the eye being the same as the knower and the one named, and every person sees him according to his eye, which this man likes to appear to him with, so Zaid the praying person sees him as Omar and sleeping, Khaled sees him as a writer, Muhammad sees him as a tailor, and Qasim sees him. He ate while the eye was the same, and all of that is indeed witnessed by every seer, and every seer in a country other than the country of its owner, as it enters .

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