The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The crookedness of the bow is its straightness to what is intended for it .]

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The crookedness of the bow is its straightness for what is intended for it. There is nothing in the universe except straightness, for it exists, and He is God Almighty, on a straight path from His being usury. If the paths enter into one another and become mixed, then they do not deviate from straightness. The straightness of mixtures and the straightness of what is found for it is in absolute straightness that has the ruling in Every universe is His saying, and to Him all matters are returned... and He is on a straight path... so worship Him, that is, submit to Him on every path He places you on. We will not submit to anything other than Him, for other than Him is non-existence, and whoever intends non-existence, his hands will not attain anything. Then he brought the third person pronoun in his saying. So worship Him, i.e., do not say, “You are the One who perceives,” for sight does not perceive Him, since if He perceived the unseen, it would not be unseen. Then worship an unkno


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