The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The truth does not speak to its servants, nor does it address them except from behind a veil .]

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And know that the Truth does not speak to His servants, nor does He address them except from behind a veil of an image in which He appears to them. That image is a veil from Him and evidence of Him, just as the apparent physical image of a human being. If the speaking soul wants to speak to another soul, it speaks to it from behind the veil of the image of its body with the tongue and language of that image. Although the soul is created and its affairs are as we have mentioned, how about the Creator? He does not witness the stages in rhetorical disputes except images of it that take what is translated to him of the truths and secrets, which is the jurisprudential Sunnah and the limit of the relationships from the blind to the earth and what is between them. No matter how far the image separates from the blind and the inner human form separates from the earth, then they meet, that is the relationship. If it reaches the blind or the matter comes to the earth, then that is a descent,


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