The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ People’s attitudes towards the purposes of the soul ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 195 من الجزء Two

It is not appropriate for the rational person to help the soul in the matters related to it that it commands him to do, for which he has a purpose, whether accidental or intrinsic, except for the believer and the knower. And his strength helps it in all its purposes, for it is all light, and light is that which has no darkness in it. Therefore,

May God’s prayers and peace be upon him, he would say in his supplication, “Make me light.”

Because the soul is not blameworthy except after it has directed its instrument to it. The reprehensible one is the oppressor, so it is said that he committed backbiting that was forbidden to him, and he told lies that were forbidden to him, and he looked by looking that was forbidden to him, and as long as the action did not appear on the instruments, he was not blameworthy, and the knower has received divine information about him that the truth is all his powers, so he mentioned the instruments, so for this reason we have made it p


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