The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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( Chapter: Bathing after washing the dead )

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Since the dead person was prescribed to be washed when he had no action, since someone else was responsible for washing him, warning the one who was washing him that he should be in the hands of his Lord in purifying him, by granting him success, and using him in obedience to Him, and what happens to him from the actions of his Creator through him and in him, just as the dead person is in the hands of the one who was washing him, so he is not considered to be washed in this way. The consideration is that he washed the dead person, but he sees that God is his purifier, and he sees himself as a machine with which God performs that action, just as the washer sees water as a machine for washing the dead person, since if it were not for the water, the name of the washer would not be valid for the one who washes him, and the water cannot be imagined to claim that it washed the dead person, because the water does not move. To him, and he did not intend to wash him, but rather with wa


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