The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The testimony of the organs and skins against their owner ]

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God Almighty says, informing about them, and they said to their skins, “Why did you bear witness against us?” They said, “God has spoken to us,” that is, by bearing witness against you, because they are just martyrs whose speech is acceptable to God. And in this world they were not satisfied with what the animal rational soul was doing to them during the time of its rule and rule over them and over all their limbs, such as hearing, sight, tongue, and hand. And the abdomen, and the vulva, and the leg, and the heart, but the skins were given this name because of the severity of their suffering, because they encounter in themselves all hardships, such as surgery, beating, burning, heat, and cold, and they contain sensations, and they are the shelter of the animal soul to face these hardships. There is nothing in a human being more severe than his skin, and for this reason.


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