The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Imagination is the broadest and narrowest of things ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 306 من الجزء One

If the Lawgiver had not known that you have a reality called imagination that has this ruling, he would not have told you that it is as if you see it with your sight, for the rational evidence forbidding whoever it is, for it refers to its evidence, likeness, and sight did not perceive anything except the wall. So we know that the Lawgiver addressed you to imagine that you are facing the truth in your legitimate qiblah. You have the right to receive it, and God says, “Wherever you turn, there is the face of God and the face of the thing, its reality and its essence. Imagination has depicted someone for whom, with rational evidence, it is impossible to form or imagine, so that is why it is broad. As for what is in it of narrowness, it is not within the power of the imagination to accept any of the sensory or moral matters, lineage, addition, or the majesty of God and His essence. Except by form, and if he wanted to perceive something without form, its reality would not be given, be


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