The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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We praise God, since we said to disagree with it and did not say to disagree in return. The disagreement may be about something that is not in return, so it combines the presence of disagreement with assistance. It will be discussed in the chapter after this chapter, and the benefit of disagreement is great.

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And know that he does not contradict the soul except in three cases: what is permissible, what is disliked, and what is forbidden, and nothing else. However, if it experiences pleasure in a specific obedience and a good deed, then there is a hidden reason that it contradicts it with another obedience and a good deed. If then all actions in the arts of obedience are equal, we will grant it that pleasure through that obedience. And if she finds hardship in another close work that is different from this work, then she must return to the hard work, because if she is accustomed to helping in such things, she will have the effect of helping in the forbidden, the disliked, and the permissible .

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But it is difficult for the soul that violates the honor of its origin and the loftiness of its position, for the divine representation in the world is its own, so it says to itself, “In my hand is the crisis of the matter and its control, especially since God Almighty created me in the image. So my violation is the violation of the truth from this position, and the violation will lead to a red death, and this soul will be blocked from the divine breadth.” And from what it was created for, and from the knowledge that the form is not for every soul, but rather it is for the perfect soul like the souls of the prophets and those who are perfect among people. If this soul was perfected, dissent from it would not be a red death, for the pleasure of knowledge gives it life in which there is no death. Existence and conquest are linked to dissent from it in everything. It should be You disagree with it, so understand.

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Help the soul, it is the essence of truth *** and describe it, so where is it absent?

Look at the truth in existence, you see it *** His eye, for the hateful in it is the Beloved

My eye is none other than Him, if you know *** For He is the eye of the far away and He is the near.

If he sees me with him, then from me I see him *** or he invites me to him, then he is the one who responds .

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Then know that the soul has two purposes, the intrinsic and the incidental. The intrinsic is to bring benefits and ward off harm, and the incidental is what is presented to it from the side of the Sharia, and it may be from the side of the purpose, or it may be from the side of suitability of character, or it may be from the side of seeking perfection, so all of them are in the path that we are on, and it is not considered except As for the Sharia in particular, it is the one that established the virtuous reasons that by doing what it commanded to do and abandoning what it forbade doing, happiness was brought about, divine love was attained, and the servant’s hearing and sight were true.

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So the Lawgiver decided for her everything that pleases him about her and what displeases him about it if she does it, and what there is no displeasure or approval in it, and whatever pleases God is a royal casting, and in the right of the Prophet is a royal and divine casting, and the divine casting is not included in the saints and followers in one sentence, I mean in the rulings by analyzing Or it is forbidden, and whatever is something that displeases God, then it is satanic casting, not fiery. Among the jinn are those who cast goodness into the hearts of the righteous. They have great mingling, mixing, and love with them. Whatever Satan casts, it is pleasing to the soul, endearing to it, and pleasing to its eyes at the time, has a bitter outcome in money, and casting possessions may be bitter. In time, but he enjoys money, and both cases are not required by the soul itself.

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It is not appropriate for the rational person to help the soul in the matters related to it that it commands him to do, for which he has a purpose, whether accidental or intrinsic, except for the believer and the knower. And his strength helps it in all its purposes, for it is all light, and light is that which has no darkness in it. Therefore,

May God’s prayers and peace be upon him, he would say in his supplication, “Make me light.”

Because the soul is not blameworthy except after it has directed its instrument to it. The reprehensible one is the oppressor, so it is said that he committed backbiting that was forbidden to him, and he told lies that were forbidden to him, and he looked by looking that was forbidden to him, and as long as the action did not appear on the instruments, he was not blameworthy, and the knower has received divine information about him that the truth is all his powers, so he mentioned the instruments, so for this reason we have made it p

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