The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The reason for confusion in divine knowledge ]

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Know, may God support you with a spirit from Him, that the reason for the confusion in our knowledge of God is that we seek to know Himself, the Almighty, in one of two ways, either through rational evidence or through a path called witnessing. The rational evidence prevents witnessing, the auditory evidence has pointed to it and has not declared, and the rational evidence has prevented us from realizing the reality of His essence. The path of the psychologically established attribute that He, Glory be to Him, is in Himself, and the mind has not perceived through His sight anything but the attributes of behavior and nothing else. This is called knowledge, and the Lawgiver has attributed to Himself matters with which He has described Himself that the rational evidence refers to, except by a remote interpretation that may or may not have been intended by the Lawgiver, and it is necessary for him to believe and believe. With what he described himself, the evidence he has establishes


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