The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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It is not possible for the knower, so how can the lover have a soul pass by him, or a state in which the beloved is not witnessed by him with the eyes of his heart and his presence, and there is no veil left except in the sense of his perception of the tangible things, where he sees that they are not the eyes of his beloved, so he veils him and seeks to meet for the sake of this veil, so if the tangible thing goes away from his sense in the apparent form. Just as it is said in the case of the sleeper, the feeling turned to the imagination, and he saw an example of his beloved in his imagination, and he came close to his heart and saw it without an example, because the imagination has no medium or degree between it and the meaning, just as there is no medium or degree between it and the sensed, for it is the means of contracting to which the meaning descends and to it the sensed rises, so it casts. If the knower or lover moves from the tangible to the imagination, he approaches the


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