The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The movements of the seven circumambulations and the effects of the seven prayers ]

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Then He made the movements of the heavens, which are the spheres, affect the four pillars, and what is generated from them does not exist. You are the four pillars because you are composed of four humors, and the sum of them is the same as your sensory self, which is the body. So the movements of these seven circles created prayer in you, which are generated from your pillars, and they were two rak’ahs. Because the generative creation is composed of two, a body and a rational soul, which is the rational animal, so one rak’ah is for your animality and the second is for the rational soul. This is why God made the prayer two halves, one half for him and a half for the servant. God made every periodic movement of this week in prayer a trace so that it is known that it was generated by him, so seven physical traces and seven traces appeared in the prayer. There is a spiritual effect on the movement of each half of the week of circumambulation, for it is an enduring form and a moral sph


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