The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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In knowing this person who investigated the abode of souls and his secrets after his death, may God be pleased with him

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 214 من الجزء One

The coast: They saw the coast running with the running of the ship. Sight gave them what was not real or known at all. For they knew with absolute certainty that the coast did not move from its place, and they could not deny what they saw of its movement. Likewise, if they tasted sugar or honey and found it It is bitter and it is sweet, so they knew it was necessary that the sense of taste made a mistake with them and conveyed what was not correct, and the matter is not so with us, but the shortcomings and error occurred from the ruler, who is the mind, not from the senses, for the senses’ perception of what they give them their truth is necessary, just as the mind in what it perceives necessarily does not make mistakes in what it perceives with the senses or with thought. He may make a mistake. Sense never made a mistake, nor is its perception necessary. There is no doubt that the sense saw movement without a doubt and found a bitter taste without a doubt. Sight perceived


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