The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 248 من الجزء One

Know that people in this position are in one of three categories. Among them are those whose incomings are greater than the strength they have within themselves, so the incoming one rules over them, but the condition overwhelms them, and in their judgment they are distracted by the condition and have no control in themselves as long as they are in that state, but if they continue in that state until the end. His age is what is called in this way insane, like Abu Aqal al-Maghribi. Among them are those who retain their mind there and their animal mind remains on them, and they eat, drink, and act without planning or deliberation. These are called rational, crazy people because they eat a normal life like all other animals. As for someone like Abu Aqal, he is crazy, completely taken away from him, and this is why what he ate and what he drank. When he was taken until he died, and that was within a period of four years in Mecca, then he was insane, i.e., hidden and free from the knowl


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