The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Likewise, the aspirant is the one who is cut off from looking at God Almighty and seeking God’s pleasure, and devoid of his will, since he knows that nothing happens in existence except what God wills, not what creation desires. So this aspirant says, “Why should I mean it and want what I do not know will happen or not?” I have no knowledge of what God Almighty knows of that. If what I want happens, then it is God’s will, then I will rejoice over it. If it does not happen, then disappointment must be broken, so worry hastened, and perhaps dissatisfaction may be dragged along with it because what was intended did not happen. It is better that he only wants what the truth wants, as it was as it was. In summary, when it happens, you receive it with acceptance and satisfaction, then it is stripped of its will, and no longer has the will of the Most High. This is the ruling. As for the one whom God informs of the seekers of God’s will in the world, this may be in one of two ways. The o


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