The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Ascetics who left the world out of power ]

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Among them, may God be pleased with them, are the ascetics, and they are the ones who left the world out of their ability, and our companions differed regarding the one who does not have anything of the world in his hand and is capable of seeking and collecting it, except that he did not do so and abandoned the request. Is he attached to the asceticism or not? So who among our companions says that he joins the ascetics and who says There is no asceticism except in what is attainable, for perhaps if any of it had happened to him, he would not have asceticized. One of their leaders is Ibrahim ibn Adham, and his hadith is famous. Some of my maternal uncles among them had been kings of the city of Tlemcen. He was called Yahya ibn Yaghan. If there had been in his time a man of jurisprudence, worshiping, and isolated from the people of Tunisia, he would have been called. Abu Abdullah al-Tunisi was in a place outside Tlemcen called Al-Ibad. He had been cut off from a mosque where God was


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