The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 111 من الجزء Two

Know that love may be natural and the beloved is not from the world of nature, and love cannot be natural unless the lover is from the world of nature. This is necessary because natural love is caused by sight or hearing, so it occurs in the imagination of the beholder from what he saw if the beloved is among those who perceive with sight and in The listener's imagination of what he heard, so he carried it in his upbringing, so he formed it in his imagination with pictorial power. The beloved may have a natural image identical to what he imagined in the imagination, or less than that, or higher than that. The beloved may not have an image, and it is not permissible for him to accept images, so this lover has depicted from what he heard something that cannot be imagined and has not been imagined. Nature's goal is to depict what does not accept form except its combination in a limited matter that is controlled for fear of dissipation and attachment to that which is not in hand. This


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