The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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“ Wasl” [The beginning of the world and its example: vanity and the Muhammadan truth]

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God was and nothing was with Him

Then He was included in Him

And now He is as He is

It was as if He had not returned to Him from His creation of the knowledgeable attribute. He was not on it, but rather he was described to himself and called before his creation by the names by which his creation called him. So when he wanted the world to exist and began it according to what he knew of it through his knowledge of himself, he was moved by that holy will as one of the manifestations of his ascension to universal truth. It contains whatever forms and images he wishes, and this is the first thing to exist in the world. Ali bin Abi Talib, may God be pleased with him, Sahl bin Abdullah, may God have mercy on him, and other people of investigation, people of revelation and existence, mentioned it. Then God, Glory be to Him, manifested His light into that void, and they call him the possessors of the divine ideas, and the whole world is in him. With strength and


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