The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The ruling is for the time and the Sufi is the son of his time ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 647 من الجزء One

The masters of God’s people said that the ruling is for time, and the human being or the Sufi is the son of his time and is not judged by the past or the future, except that the human being does not know that he is the son of his time despite the ruling of time upon him, and the Sufi knows that by virtue of his time he is in the same matter, so for this reason we said that the Sufi is the son of his time due to his knowledge. Based on that, and because of his knowledge that in what he is judged by, there is the effect of prophecy, and not every human being knows that, even though it is such and such in the same matter, so whenever this ruling appears to a person and he is described with knowledge that he is of his time, then that is the meaning of his saying, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, “It is for the night you saw it,” then we know with certainty if the crescent was In the rays, He is manifested to us, but we do not see them, as we definitely know. The stars in the s


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