The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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In knowing the home of Muhammad al-Makki from Hazrat Musawiya

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The full moon is afraid of thieves, so a person should enter the city beware of thieves. I understood from him from these words that he meant that souls, if witnesses of the truth prevail over them, would be attained by it and in it among those who enter the gardens of knowing God and speaking about His majesty in His ways and the abundance of His arts, so he likened the truth to the full moon. He likened the types of fruits contained in orchards to what the divine presence contains of knowledge of the divine names and attributes of majesty and exaltation, and I understood it in a dream from his saying, “When the full moon sets,” and that is the witnessing of the truth in things, presence with it, and pure intention in it. There was the darkness of ignorance and heedlessness of God and mistakes, and fear of thieves, wanting the resemblance. The unexpected misguidance of those with intellectual insight and those with formal revelation. He mentioned this out of fear for the souls. I


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