The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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“ Issue” [related to matter and related to ability]

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The rational evidence indicates that creation is related to power, and the Truth said about itself that existence occurs from the divine command. He said, “Our saying of something, if We intend it, is that we say to it ‘Be’ and it is,” so we must look at what is related to the matter, what is related to power, so that we may combine hearing and reason. So we say that compliance occurred when he said, “So it will be,” and what is commanded is “existence,” so the will was attached to the specification of one of the possible things, which is existence, and the power was attached to the possible, so it affected creation, and it is a reasonable state between nothingness and existence. So the discourse attached the command to this specific entity to be, so it complied, and it was. If it were not, the possible would not have an entity and no description of it as existence. The command to exist when existence occurs is directed at that eye, and the one who says that what is intended in th


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