Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ The alienation of the knowers ]
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As for the estrangement of the knowers from their homeland, it is their separation from their possibility, for the possible is the homeland of the possible, and it is revealed to him that it is the truth, and the truth is not his homeland of possibility, so the possible departs from the homeland of his possibility for these witnesses, and since the possible was in its homeland, which is nothingness, with his eye fixed, he heard the saying of the truth to him, “Be,” so he hastened into existence, and was to see. He became estranged from his homeland, which is nothingness, desiring the witnesses of the one who said to him, “Be,” and when he opened his eyes, the truth made him witness its forms of created things, and he did not witness the truth for which he hastened to exist. In this state, I said
If the strange universe appears to my gaze *** I longed for my homelands, longing for the stirrups
He says, so I wanted to retur