Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ The servant has two eyes ]
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And know that this Presence has granted that the servant should have two eyes and the Truth has two eyes, so it was said about the creature, “Did we not give it two eyes?” And God Almighty said about Himself, “Our eyes run with it.” And from His eyes He was possessed of sight and discernment, and from His eyes were the eyes of creation itself, so they do not see except through Him, even if they do not know that, and the worlds know that. Those who know that, He gives them the discipline to lower their gaze and be characterized by imperfection, for lowering is a deficiency in perception. And His saying, “Didn’t he not know that God sees an absolute sending in the vision in which there is no lowering?” If they did not lower their gaze despite their knowledge, then it would be known that they are among the witnesses of what is destined to exist, so they see it as it is. God sees it in terms of its occurrence, not in terms of judging it to be such and such. This is how the scholars se