The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ When God created Adam, peace be upon him, He placed images in his image just as He did with the creatures previously .]

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Know that Adam, peace be upon him, when God created him and changed him just as He changed the spheres and all the presences that we mentioned, He made for us in his form images like what He did with the creatures previously mentioned. Then He captured those specific images in Adam’s back, and Adam does not know what it contains, just as He is every form. We have in every sphere and station by which neither that sphere nor that station is known, and indeed, in every form we have a special face to Him, from that facet He addresses us, and from that facet we respond to Him, and from that facet we acknowledge His lordship. If we had been taken from before Adam, we would have known, so taking was from his back, since it was his back. He was absent from him, and he also took him with us in this charter from his back, for he has with us a picture in his form, so he testified as we testified, and he does not know that it was taken from him, or perhaps he knew, for we are not certain that


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