The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Desire in three parts ]

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Desire, in the people’s terminology, has three parts: a desire whose place is the soul, which is attached to reward; a desire whose place is the heart, which is attached to the truth; and a desire whose place is the secret, which is attached to the truth. As for psychological desire, it only exists in the common people and in the perfect men of God, because of their knowledge that man is a collection of things that God created him with, natural, spiritual, and divine, so knowledge. There are those who seek the reward of what God promised him, and he desired it for him as proof of the divine ruling, but as for the common people, they have no knowledge of that, so the perfect and the common people share in the form of desire, and each one is distinguished in the motive from the other, like fear on the day of the greatest terror, in which the messengers, peace be upon them, participate, and they are the highest of the sects, and the common people, and they are the sinners and the dis


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