The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Their discretion in this matter is because it is not based on insight and is not among the people of God, for the people of God are the people of insight, and the one who has insight must not be free of either a divine command that he stops at and judges, or not from a divine command, if it is based on It is a divine command, so he is a pure slave, and we have no words with him. He is commanded, as we think he is in Abdul Qadir al-Jili, for this was his position, and God knows best, because of his behavior in the world. And if it was not due to a divine command, then it is either from knowledge that this destiny saved for so-and-so can only be reached by him. At the hand of this person, then he holds it for this revelation, and this is also one of the aspects of the Almighty and those like him, or he knows that it is from so-and-so and it must be, but he did not find out that it is at his hand or at the hand of someone else, so holding such is a scarcity in nature and he re

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Know that people are divided into four categories in what they give and in what they take: a group that magnifies what they give and despises what they take, a group that despises what they give and esteems what they take, a group that despises what they give and take, and a group that magnifies what they give and what they take, and for this reason some of them are selective, and they are the ones who do not see the face of truth in Things, and some of them do not select, and they are the ones who see the truth in things. They may select for the need of the time, or they may not select because they are aware of their absolute poverty. Among them and among them, their views are different, and so are their sights and tastes according to their conditions. The state of the rational soul is like the mood of the animal soul, for the mood is the ruler of the body, and the state is the ruler of the soul.

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Then know that it is lawful to magnify charity. God Almighty said, “Eat from it and feed the needy and the needy.” And He said, “And feed the contented and the poor,” meaning from the body, which He, Glory be to Him, has made among the rituals of God. It has benefits for a specified time, then its transfer is to the Ancient House. He means the body, and in this story he said, “And of what We have provided them, they spend.” We have mentioned in the explanation of the spender that he has two aspects of spending, so it is the same here. We obtained from it its meat and attained the right from it. We have piety from us in it, and from our piety we glorify it. Charity may be glorified in this regard according to some knowledgeable people, so what is given is glorified if it is A giver or a taker, if he is a taker, and his sight may be another taste

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It is the first scene we have experienced from this door on this path, and it is that one day I carried in my hand something despised and disgusting in the eyes of the common people. People like us did not carry anything like that because of the recklessness of nature in our souls and the love of being distinguished from those who do not notice with the eye of veneration. So I saw the Sheikh and with him. His companions were coming, and his companions said to him, “O our master, this so-and-so has come and did not stop on the way. He struggled with himself. He saw him carrying in the middle of the market, where people saw him so-and-so, and they mentioned to him what I had in my hand. So the sheikh said, ‘Perhaps he did not carry it as a struggle for himself.’ They said to him, ‘What then?’” He said, “So ask him if he meets with us.” When I reached it, I greeted the Sheikh, and he said to me after returning the greeting, “With what reason did you carry this in your hand? It is a d

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