The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Objects fixed on them, the discourse falls on both sides of absolute existence and absolute nothingness ]

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So nothingness became the impossible, demanding that we become its property, and the right that must exist for itself became demanding that we be its property and manifest its authority in us, and we are on a truth with which we accept the two descriptions, and we are closer to nothingness than we are to existence, for we are nonexistent, but not described by the impossible, but our description of that nothingness is possibility, which is that it is It is not in our power to ward off existence or non-existence from our souls, but we have fixed, distinct entities upon which the discourse falls from both sides, so non-existence says to us, “Be as you are from nothingness, because it is not for you to be in my rank.” And the truth says to every entity among the entities of the possible, “Be.” He commands it to exist, so the possible says, “we.” In nothingness, we have known it and tasted it, and the matter of the necessary existence has come to us with existence, and what we know and


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