The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The priority of perception and the denial of homosexuality from God ]

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And God Almighty did not deny that He perceived any of the powers He created except sight. He said, “Sight does not perceive it,” so He forbade that in Sharia law. And what He said, “Hearing, reason, or other powers described by man do not perceive it.” He also did not say that anything other than sight perceives it. Rather, He left the matter ambiguous and showed the contingencies. What is presented to these forces in the context of warning is that perhaps this was placed in our vision by someone to whom there is nothing like Him, just as we saw the first visible, heard the first audible, smelled the first smelled, tasted the first tasted, touched the first tangible, and our mind is the first intelligible of that which has no similarity with us, even though it has examples in the same way. The matter is, but in the primacy of perception there is a strange secret in the denial of similarity to it. The perceiver perceives someone who has no likeness to him and compares it to him, a


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