The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The ropes of truth to catch straying souls ]

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Know that the Almighty God set up ropes to catch souls straying from what they were created to worship, and then deceived them with the love that He placed for them in those ropes, or baits, or animate beings similar to theirs in life. He made them tied to ropes from where those looking at them do not perceive. It is the hunt that brings him into the trap. The rope is the vision of the race, hoping to catch up with them to see what they are up to, so it became in the grip of the hunter, and he was tied up, and that was what was meant because he was wanted for his own eyes, and from hunting he is inflicted by the greed to collect the love that was wasted in the rope. Then the hunter has whistles with which he narrates the sounds of birds. If the bird hears them, it descends and falls into the rope. In the same position as one who heard the call of the truth and answered, this one was not repelled by benevolence, and the other was kind to him with love spread in the ropes, so he saw


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