The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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“ Question” [Our Knowledge of God]

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The most knowledgeable of possible things does not know its existence except from what it is, for in itself it is knowledge, and whoever exists from it something other than that is not valid, because knowledge of a thing permits encompassing it and being free of it, and in this case, it is impossible. Knowledge of it is impossible, and it is not valid for him to know of it because it is not dispersed, so there is no remainder. Knowledge is only what is from it, and what is from it is you, then you are the known. If it is said that our knowledge is not such and such knowledge of it, we say that your attribute has stripped it of it due to what the evidence requires of denying participation. Thus, you are distinguished for you from an entity unknown to you in terms of what is known to itself. What it is is distinguished for you due to the lack of evidential attributes. Which has in itself, so understand what you have learned and say, “My Lord, increase me in knowledge. If you had kno


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