The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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In knowing the condition of Qutb, his migration and his abode (so turn away from those who turn away from Our remembrance)

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Custom and knowledge, and the meaning is knowledge and law, not custom. He wanted to see his ruling in the purpose, for prostration in custom is after the height required of God. Do you not see Ibn Ata’ when a man sank with his camel, so he said, “Glory be to God,” and the camel said, “Glory be to God.” He did not dive except to seek his Lord, for it is the prostration of a portion of that limb to God. When the camel saw Ibn Ata’’s ignorance of God in the man’s request to his Lord by diving, the camel, Glory be to God, said, “If your knowledge confines him, he will have nothing in your contract except the high. So whoever guards the lower, and I am a man, I am not a head, so he must I seek my Lord with my truth and nothing but prostration

The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: If you were to drop a rope, it would fall on God

This is exactly what Al-Jamal said, so whoever prostrates will necessarily approach God, and the prostra


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