The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The mind’s perception is divided into two parts: subjective perception and non-self perception ]

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The mind’s perception is divided into two parts: subjective perception, in which it is like the senses and does not make mistakes, and non-subjective perception, which is what it perceives with the instrument that is thought and with the instrument that is sense. Imagination imitates sense in what it gives it, and thought looks in imagination and finds things as singularities, so it wants to create an image from them that the mind memorizes, so it attributes some of the singularities. To some, he may be mistaken in attributing the matter to what it is, and he may be correct, and the mind judges to that extent, and he is wrong and correct, so the mind is imitative, and for this reason it is characterized by error, and when the Sufis saw the error of the theorists, they changed to the unambiguous method to take things from the point of certainty in order to be characterized by certain knowledge, for the ignorant person may be characterized by knowledge. With regard to his ignorance


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