The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The intention of mentioning God by His name is knowledge or in the pronoun of backbiting. ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 228 من الجزء Two

If you say, then the people of God preferred mentioning the word “Allah,” “Allah,” and mentioning the word “hu” over the supplications that give the adjective, and they found benefits for it. I said, “They are right,” and I say that, but they did not mean by mentioning “God,” “God,” the same as its meaning of the eye. Rather, they meant this noun or “how” insofar as they knew that the name is “Allah.” By this name or this pronoun, he is the one who is not restricted by the universes and the one who has complete existence, so bringing this into the memory’s soul when mentioning the name thus brings about benefit, for it is an unrestricted remembrance, so if he restricts it to there is no god but God, nothing will result for him except what this meaning gives him, and if he restricts it to Glory be to God, it will not be possible for him. To be present only with the reality of what gives him praise. Likewise, God is great, praise be to God, and there is no power nor strength except


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