The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The human being is to the world as the soul is to the body ]

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The whole world is the detail of Adam, and Adam is the comprehensive book. It is to the world like the soul is to the body. Man is the spirit of the world and the world is the body. In sum, the whole world is the great man and man is in it. If you look at the world alone without man, you find it like a flattened body without a soul and perfection. The world with man is like the perfection of the body with the spirit, and man is inflated into the body of the world, so that is what is meant by the world, and God took the angels as messengers to Him, and for this reason He called them angels, meaning messengers from the kingdom, which is the message. If you take honor by the perfection of the form, you say man is perfect, and if you take honor by knowledge of God from the aspect of truth, not from the path of sight, then that is better. And the most honorable is the one whom God has honored by saying, “This is better in my view,” for there is no prohibition on him to favor who


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