The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The secret of dealing with desires in things that are similar ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 343 من الجزء Four

And from that is the secret of dealing with desires in similarities from Chapter 89. There is no escape from desire, for it is part of the reality of its origin here, and in the category in similarities, the tendency to all directions. What is the wonder of the world being as it is? Rather, the wonder is of those who see it as an isthmus in the Surah, and an isthmus between two extremes, and then nothing else. Two eyes, you and whoever you are about him, and all of them are from him with us. The isthmus is not established neither in the existent eye because it is between fixed and non-existent eyes and existence. So whoever observes this lofty position, it is proven to him that the world in its state of existence is an isthmus. If the world were removed from existence, the limited isthmus would disappear. Things are similar to proverbs, like dense bodies. By the shadows, and to God prostrates whoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and their shadows are


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