The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ A person’s knowledge of himself and his rank is only known from the image ]

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A person’s knowledge of himself and his rank cannot be known except from the image, and from here someone who has no ability to possess divine knowledge imagines that he is a prophet or has attained the rank of prophets of the laws. This is why some of the gentlemen of God’s men said, “God has made you a Sufi hadith scholar, and He has not made you a Sufi scholar, for it is most likely that you will be.” By virtue of the previous principle, unless God protects us, it is obligatory for us to know the place we have among the prophets, lest we be among those who are not in this regard, especially when God says, “And if We had made him an angel, We would have made him a man, and We would have clothed them with what they wear, even if there were angels on earth, walking in tranquility.” We sent down to them from heaven a king and a messenger. If he had been a man, he would have appeared in the form of an angel due to the required confusion, which is the image of their work, so that it


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