The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Existence is pleasure and sweetness, while non-existence is pain and dismay ]

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And when man knew that if there were no existence of God Almighty, no eye would appear to him in existence and that its origin was not a mentioned thing. God Almighty said, “And I created you before, and you were not a thing.” Existence has pleasure and sweetness, which is good, and the illusion of concrete nothingness causes severe, great pain in the souls that knows no amount. That is except for the scholars, but every soul fears from nothingness that it will join Him as it is in its own state. Whenever it sees something in which it imagines that it will join it out of its sight or with something close to it, it flees from it and is terrified and fears for its own eyes and since it was also about the Divine Spirit, which is the soul of the Most Merciful, and for this reason it is called “breathing” to suit the soul, so he said. And I breathed into him of My spirit, and likewise Jesus was made by breathing into a clay image like the form of a bird


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