The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Certainty is dear to exist in normal, usual matters ]

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In short, certainty is dear to the ordinary, natural matters, for habit steals character, especially in matters that have the body’s natural strength. If it loses what it has to reach its strength, then it suffers, and pain does not negate certainty, for it is what opposes it. But say that someone with pain suffers except He must be disturbed and stirred within himself, especially the pain of hunger, thirst, cold, heat, and turmoil are the opposite of certainty, for certainty is the stillness of the soul to the one in whose hand are these things that remove these pains. The one who experiences the pain wants, of course, to quickly disappear. If this is the case, then we will follow a path in certainty other than what the people of the path imagine, and it is Disturbances do not undermine certainty if the instigation of certainty in removing those sufferings is due to the side of the truth and not to the causes that usually remove them. If the truth wills, He removes them by those


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