Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ The Knowledge of the Eternal Name ]
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From that is the knowledge of the name Al-Qayyum, and our companions disagreed about it as to whether one should imitate it or not. Sheikh Abu Abdullah bin Junaid Al-Qabr Fayqi was one of the major sheikhs of this order in Andalusia, and he was a Mu’tazilite. I heard him forbidding imitating oneself with it, and I negotiated with him about it many times in his place in the presence of his companions at Qabr Fayqi’s works and his peers. Until he returned to our saying about creation by the Ever-Living, like the rest of the divine names, and in it there is knowledge of the creation of the unseen world, and in it is knowledge of the quantifications of the unseen world, and in it is knowledge of describing the words of God sequentially, and in it is knowledge of the descending of spirits and the heaviness and distress of the soul that those who descend on them will find, and I was isolated in the graves for a period of time alone by myself. I was informed that our Sheikh Yusuf bin Yak