The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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And when God attributed the Throne to Himself and made it the place of the Most Merciful, and said, “The Most Gracious is above the Throne,” He made the angels surrounding it around the Throne in the position of guards, the King’s guards and those who attend its door to carry out His commands. And God made the Kaaba His House and set up those who circumambulate it in that manner, and distinguished the House over the Throne and over the shrines. And the rest of the fourteen houses, according to something that has been conveyed to us, that he is in the Throne and not in any other house, and it is the Black Stone, the right hand of God on earth, that we pledge allegiance to Him in every round, the pledge of allegiance to Ridwan, and good tidings of acceptance of what was from us in every round, whether it is for us or against us. So what is ours is acceptance, and what is against us is forgiveness, for I am I saw an incident in which people were circumambulating around it and sparks

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And from here our saying is known that there is nothing in existence except God and that potential entities, despite their origin from nothingness, are distinct from God in their entities over their realities, and that the truth is what is apparent in it without any reasonable circumstance, so it appears in the form of that entity. If it were true that it existed, it would be in this form in the senses. So look at what is amazing. The matter of existence, then the beneficiary of existence is the same as the beneficial. If the benefit is other than existence, which is the form, then the beneficiary is the apparent and the beneficial is the eye, because the form in which the apparent appears is the true form of the essence of the apparent, so every ruling attributed to the apparent is from it, and the apparent benefit to it by its appearance is the ruling on influencing it if it does not have that ruling, since it does not have that ruling. It was and was not exalted in its form or

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Sand is an acceleration in the soul of goodness to goodness, for it is goodness in goodness. This is due to the wisdom of hastening the realization of the knowledge of the divine command, for God Almighty says, “And our commandment is but one thing,” like a glimpse of the sight, for sight is nothing quicker than it. For a time hastened by the eye’s glimpse of it, a time of its attachment to the visible, even if it is in the distance. Whatever is and the farthest things in sense are the fixed planets that are in the orbit of the mansions, and when you look at them the glimpse attaches to them, this is the speed of sense. What do you think of the meanings that are devoid of restriction in the speed of their influence, for speed has a ruling on things that no one other than speed has, and from here it is known that the truth says to a thing “be” and “it is.” The state of the Divine Being is the state of the created being, and that is why the quickest of the letters in that is the fa’

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If you want to know the picture of the creation of the world and its appearance and the speed of the divine command’s influence on it and what sight and insight perceive of it, then look at what happens in the air in terms of the speed of movement with the ember of fire in the hand of the one who moves it if he wants it, so that a circle or a rectangular line appears in the eye of the beholder if he takes it. By movement as long or in any shape He wills, and do not doubt that you have seen a circle of fire, and do not doubt that what follows is a circle. Rather, that created in your view the speed of movement, which is His saying, “And what is our command,” which is His saying, “Be but one, like an ember, like a glimpse of the eye.” Perceiving a circle and what it is a circle, for that is the essence of the created image that is apparent to the eye’s perception. So, judge. From the point of view of your consideration with your sight, insight, and thought, that He was created, and

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