The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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May God’s prayers and peace be upon him, as was authentically reported from him when he was asked about seeing his Lord with his eye that is restricted and layered.

He was asked, “Have you seen your Lord?” The questioner wanted to see the eye that was restricted by a limb, and he said, “I see it with my light.”

That is, The light of this perception is weaker than that of the divine light, and if the restricted sight has perception in the divine light according to a specific definition, then the divine light is just as it was said that the likeness to a lamp mentioned in the Qur’an is based on the specific attributes mentioned. Likewise, the perception of sight accepts it if it fulfills all of these conditions, then contemplate them within yourself, and His saying “You will not perceive it” comes out. Sight has two faces. The one aspect is that he denied that sight perceives it by way of being aware of the facts. Rather, the sighted perceive it through sight, not


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