The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Know that love has three levels of natural love, which is the love of the common people, and its goal is union with the animal spirit, so the soul of each of them becomes a soul for its companion through the path of pleasure and arousal of desire, and its end is the act of marriage, for the desire of love flows through all moods like the flow of water in a wool, or even the flow of color in a colorful one. A spiritual, psychological love whose goal is to imitate the Beloved while fulfilling the rights of the Beloved and knowing his destiny, and divine love, which is God’s love for the servant and the servant’s love for his Lord, as He said, “He loves them and they love Him.” Its end, from both ends, is for the servant to see that he is a manifestation of the Truth, and for that reason, the apparent Truth is like the soul to the body, whose interior is hidden within it and is never perceived and only a lover witnesses it. And that the truth is manifest to the servant, so it is char


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