The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The path of reason to God, from the perspective of Sharia, is closer to it than from the perspective of thought. ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 289 من الجزء One

We have learned that the mind has nothing in its own right, and that what it acquires from the sciences is only from the fact that it has the quality of acceptance. If it is of this status, then its acceptance from its Lord for what He tells us about Himself, the Almighty, is more deserving of its acceptance from its thought, and it is known that its thought is imitated. Because of his imagination, and that his imagination is an imitation of his senses, and with his imitation, he is not strong in grasping what he has unless the power of preserving and remembering helps him to do so, and with this knowledge that the strong do not go beyond their creation and what their reality gives him, and that looking at himself, he has no knowledge except the necessities with which he was born, he does not accept the words of those who say To him, there is another power behind you that gives you something other than what it gave you. The thinking power was obtained by the people of God, from th


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