The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Whoever reaches the limit of breadth becomes narrow ]

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Among these is the one who has reached the limit of breadth and is narrowed, saying, “There is no wider than the open space,” since spaciousness can only be described by emptiness. If the open space is filled, it is narrow without a doubt, for the possible things are endless, and the emptiness has become narrow because it is filled, so the space is narrowed, so God places what He has created of fullness in the open space. Transubstantiations, so He continues to take off a form and attach it to permanence and non-existence, and He creates a form of non-existence in this completeness, so formation and change in it never ceases with transmutations in this world and the hereafter, nay, in all of existence. These are the affairs to which He has access to every day of this world and the hereafter, nay, of the days of existence, so he is not fed up with transubstantiations. For it is emptying and occupying, so by building the emptiness it has become narrow, and by emptying and occupying


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