The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Illiteracy according to Ibn al-Arabi ]

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Illiteracy among us is not incompatible with memorizing the Qur’an or memorizing Prophetic narrations, but illiteracy among us is someone who does not use his intellectual sight and rational judgment in extracting the meanings and secrets it contains, the rational evidence it gives in knowledge of the divine, and the jurisprudential evidence, analogies, and explanations it gives to the mujtahids in legal rulings. If the heart is free from the knowledge of intellectual consideration, according to the law and reason, then it will be illiterate and it will be fully susceptible to divine conquest, quickly and without delay, and it will be blessed with worldly knowledge in all things such that no one knows the extent of it except a prophet or one of the saints who has tasted it, and through it the degree of faith and its formation will be perfected and it will stand in this way. Knowledge of the affliction of thoughts and their mistakes and in what proportion health and illness are att


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