The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ One person’s knowledge of many causes him to be ignorant of himself .]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 618 من الجزء Two

Know that one of the characteristics of this house is that one’s knowledge of multiplicity necessitates ignorance of himself because multiplicity is witnessed to him, and that is because the spirit does not intellect itself except with this body, the place of quantity and multiplicity, and it has never witnessed itself alone despite being in itself undivided and does not know its humanity except by the presence of it. The body is with him, and for this reason, when he is asked about his definition and reality, he says: A nourishing, sensitive, speaking body: This is the reality of man alone, the psychological self, so he takes forever in his definition. If he is asked about him because he is a human being, this is so numerous, then he does not understand his oneness in himself, but rather understands the oneness of the genus, not the true oneness, and what happens to him by acquisition is that he is one. In its essence is the science of intellectual evidence, not the knowledge of


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