The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Divine Names and Sufi Knowledge ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 214 من الجزء One

And also so that you may know that the divine names are like this and that each name gives a special truth. For in its power is that each one of the divine names gives what all the names give. God Almighty said, “Say, ‘Call upon God’ or ‘Call upon the Most Merciful. Whichever you call upon, to Him belong the best names.’ And likewise, if every name was mentioned He would have said about it that He has the most beautiful names, and that is due to the oneness of what is called. So know that. Among people are those to whom the name God is specific, so his knowledge is divine, and among them are those to whom the name All-Merciful is specific, so his knowledge is merciful, as was the case with the cosmic powers. It is said that this person’s knowledge is theoretical, and in the right of another, it is auditory, for he is a theorist and a scholar. Hearing and the world of breaths. Thus, his knowledge of the divine things is attributed to the divine name that was revealed to him in him,


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