Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ If it were not for reliance on the servant’s eye, the authority of the First and the Last would not have emerged. ]
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If it were not for the reliance on the servant’s eye, the authority of these two names would not have appeared, since the eye there is one, not united, and in the servant, it is united, not one. So unity is for God, and union is for the servant, not unity, for the servant is intelligible only by something other than Him, not by himself, so he has no scent in unity at all, and the truth has been intelligible to him in unity. It has been reasoned in addition to the fact that the whole has, rather, it is the essence of the whole, not the totality of the plural, but rather a singular reality from which multiplicity results, and this is not true except in the aspect of truth in particular, so nothing can ever emanate from the one in the matter of reason except one, except for the singularity of truth, for multiplicity emanates from it because its singularity is outside the rule of reason. And he developed it. The oneness of the rule of reason is that which can only be issued by one per