The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Surrounding something covers the thing, so what is apparent is the surrounding, not the thing surrounded ]

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Then he continued and said that everything in the world is surrounded, and surrounding a thing conceals that thing, so the apparent thing is the surrounding, not that thing, because surrounding it prevents it from appearing, so that thing, which is the world in the surrounding, became like the soul to the body, and the surrounding is like the body. The one spirit has testimony, which is the apparent ocean, and the other is unseen, which is hidden by this encompassing, and it is the eye of the world. And since the judgment is for what is described by the unseen in the apparent, which is the testimony, and the objects of the world were prepared in themselves, they judged the apparent things in them according to what they give them their realities, so their forms appeared in the ocean, which is the truth, so it was said: a throne, a chair, and the spheres. Possessions, elements, generators, conditions that arise, and then there is nothing but God. Truth, from its being an enclosure,


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