The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The light spread out on the earth has no existential reality except the light of sight. ]

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Know that the light spread out on the earth, which is from the sun’s rays spreading through the air, has no existential reality except through the light of perceiving sight. Therefore, if the two eyes meet, the eye of the sun and the eye of sight, the visible objects are illuminated, and it is said that the sun has spread over them. Therefore, that radiance disappears in the presence of the obstructing clouds, because the eye has separated. This other eye is in the presence of the clouds, and it is a very ambiguous issue, because I say that if the sun were in the atmosphere of the sky and there was no eye in the world that could see from any animal, it would not have a spread beam on the earth at all. The light of every creature is limited to itself and no one else is enlightened by it. So the existence of our sight and the existence of the sun together is clearer. The spread light does not see the colors inverted in a single body that is colored green, for example, or red, if the


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