The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ the bound slave ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 618 من الجزء One

As for if the slave is bound, then if he frees himself from the bondage of the universe, he becomes free from others, the servant of God. Our servitude to God is impossible to remove and free, because it is an intrinsic characteristic of Him, and it is impossible to be freed from it in this state, not in the first state. He warned of this in the Almighty’s saying, “Say, O God, what is the matter with you?” The King, so he called him “Malik” so that the name “Malik” is correct for him, and he did not say “Malik Al-Alam.” He also said, as a matter of reference and verification, “Say I seek refuge in the Lord of the people, the King of the people.” As a matter of investigation, when he called them the people and did not give them a name that required them to be a right, he himself added to them the name “the King,” and as a matter of reference, an active participle from forgetfulness. He is identified with the Alif and the L because he forgot that the truth is his hearing, his sight,


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