The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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“ Tammim” [knowing God through the universe]

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Since it has been proven that knowledge of a matter cannot exist except by knowledge of another matter that has preceded this knowledge, there is a correspondence between the known things, and it has been proven that there is no correspondence between God Almighty and His creation in terms of the correspondence that exists between things, which is the correspondence between kind, species, or type. Thus, we do not have prior knowledge of anything by which we can perceive the essence of truth because of the connection between them. For example, we know of the nature of the spheres, which is a fifth nature that we would not have known at all, if we had not previously known of the four mothers. When we saw the spheres outside of these natures by a ruling that is not in these mothers, we knew that Then there is a fifth nature in terms of the upper movement that is in the ether and the air and the lower one that is in the water and the dirt and the correspondence between the spheres and


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