The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Imagination is like the images of the resurrection; the top is narrow and the bottom is wide ]

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As for our companions, they made a mistake in this horn. Most of the wise people considered its narrowest to be the center, and its highest to be the highest sphere, above which there is no sphere, and that the images it contained were images of the world, so they made the wide horn to be the highest and its narrow to be the lowest of the world. The matter is not as they claimed, but rather since the imagination, as we said, depicts the truth, then those without it. From the world to nothingness, the top of it was narrow and its bottom was wide. This is how God created it. The first thing of which He created was narrow and the last of what He created of it was what was expansive, and it is the one that follows the head of the animal. There is no doubt that the presence of actions and universes is broader, and for this reason the knower does not have breadth in knowledge except to the extent of what he knows of the world. Then it is If he wants to move to knowledge of the oneness o


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