Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ Knowing God in terms of Himself and in terms of His being God ]
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So knowledge became divided into two halves, one half being knowledge of the Self and the other half knowing that He is a god. When we investigated the rational evidence and listened to the legal evidence, we proved the existence of the Self and we were ignorant of its reality, and we proved its divinity, which is half the knowledge of its perfection, and a quarter is its existence, I mean the existence of the self to which divinity is attributed, and the fourth quarter is knowledge of its reality, but we did not achieve it. To know its truth, and it is not possible to reach that, and the addition to the quarter that we also did not know is our ignorance of the proportion of the rulings that we attributed to it. Even if we know the proportion because it is a proportion, we may be ignorant of the specific proportion due to our ignorance of what is attributed to it. Knowledge occurred from the setting of the sun to the rising of dawn and from the rising of dawn to the rising of The