The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The slavery of disposition and the slavery of possibility ]

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As for those of them who descended from this class, he says that it is not valid to leave it inwardly because of the lack that the one who has innovated does not deny in himself, so he must humiliate him, for that humiliation is the essence of slavery, unless the person is taken away from knowing himself. As for abandoning it as a matter of knowledge, it means that the slave, if you look at him from In terms of his behavior, not in terms of what is possible, and I called it servitude from that aspect, it is possible in knowledge to abandon it as a matter of disposition, not as a matter of possibility, and that is that the reality of servitude is standing at the commands of the master, and here there is no commanded person except the one of whom it is correct to do what he commands, and actions are created by God, so he is the one who commands. And the commanded, then where is the true disposition by which the slave is called a slave who follows the orders of his master or disputes


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