The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Letters: their characteristics are in their shapes, not in their letters ]

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And know that these letters did not have this property from being letters, but rather they had this property from their being shapes. Since they had shapes, the property was of form, and that is why their work differs according to the different pens, because the shapes differ. As for digital, their shapes are perceptible to the sight, so if their objects exist and their spirits and their intrinsic life accompany them, this property is Therefore, the letter has its shape and its combination with its soul. Likewise, if the shape is composed of two, three, or more letters, the shape has another soul, not the soul that the letter alone had, for that soul


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