The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The free person is the owner of matters in their crisis and there is no one who is owned ]

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And know that the free one is the one who has control over matters in their crisis, and you did not control it, and he directed it and you did not control it, and this does not exist in the two sides, for God says, “Call upon Me, I will respond to you.” And He asked us to respond when He called us, so the direction occurred on the part of the Truth and on the side of the servant. If it were not for the servant’s supplication and his question, the Truth would not have answered, and the answer is His attribute. A form of acting in the truth has appeared from the servant, and a form of acting in the servant has appeared from the truth, not a form of acting. This destiny is between the right and the servant, and he cannot be completely free from this description of him. In fact, freedom does not have an essence, for additions prevent that, but the reality of freedom lies in the self’s absence of the worlds. With the world appearing to Him for its own sake and not for any other reason,


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