The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The wonder that broke the back and baffled the mind ]

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And the wonder that broke the back and baffled the mind is your saying and your teaching that God sees in your saying a rebuke and a warning. Did he not know that God sees and your saying that He is with you wherever you are? Then you said that if you lifted the veil between us and you because you are described with the glorifications of the face, what your sight perceives with the glorifications would be burned away. By your face and by the light, the appearance of the world is correct, which is its existence, so how can creation be deprived of its reality? Here is the confusion. Then, in the two matters, you have brought yourself under the rule of definition, and this is denied by what you have placed in us of the rational power that sees through the intellectual quality. We only have sense and reason. By sense is what we perceive, and by reason is what we perceive. The limit has occurred. You are behind the veil, then you are limited, and if you are closer to us than the veil,


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