The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The choice of the servant is a restriction on seeing the divine truth ]

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As for in the desert, he is alone, so there is no objection to him abandoning facing the Qiblah due to necessity, so he behaves himself and does not face the street out of respect for the words of the Lawgiver, for in the desert there is no state of his being bound to seeing a divine reality except his choice, and the servant should not have a choice with his master. God Almighty said, “And your Lord creates what He wills, and He chooses.” He chose the cities and the built areas as long as they had the choice. What he did not choose for them is not for them to choose. Rather, they stop at the legal ceremonies, for the Lawgiver is God Almighty, so he uses in this view all the narrations contained in facing the Qiblah with the need and turning away from it, and forbidding both .


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