The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ A person’s pleasure in his perfection is the greatest pleasure ]

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A person's pleasure in his perfection is the greatest pleasure, and his pleasure in someone who is in his image is the greatest pleasure. The proof of this is that the pleasure does not apply to all of a person, and he does not consume himself in beholding something in its entirety, and love and adoration do not permeate the nature of his spirituality unless he is in love with a slave girl or a boy, and the reason for that is that he meets it with its totality. Because it is in His image and everything in the world is a part of Him, it cannot be matched except by that appropriate part. Therefore, He is not consumed in something that He loves except in something similar to it .


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