The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Divine Expansion and Denial of Homosexuality in Notables ]

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Rather, we say that divine expansion requires that there is no likeness in existing entities and that likeness is a reasonable and imaginary matter. For if likeness were true, nothing would be distinguished from anything of what is said to be like it, for that is what distinguishes a thing from another thing. The eye of that thing, and what is not distinguished by it from anything else, is only one eye. If you say, “We see it as separated and separate,” this thing is separated from this one, despite the fact that it is similar to it in definition and reality. It is said to him, “You are the one who is mistaken,” for what the separation occurred with is what is expressed as being that eye and what did not occur with it. Separation is what you imagined to be a proverb, and this is one of the most obscure issues in this chapter, so there is no proverb at all, and it is not possible to deny proverbs, but with limits and nothing else. That is why the proverb was based on the universal,


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