The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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In knowing the relation to your being and your universal God

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It did not occur in sense, but it occurred in his right as a representation, so he perceived it in representation, just as it occurs in sense, like the worshiper who said to him, “Worship God as if you see him.” So what is this like the protruding throne? God is present here in the same matter, in the qiblah of the praying person or the worshiper, in whatever action it may be, and the protrusion of the throne is not like that. Among the people are those who worship God as if he were seeing Him due to the veil that prevented him from seeing Him. Among the people are those who worship Him based on vision and observation, and there is no difference between the one who sees Him and the one who does not see Him except that the one who does not see Him does not know Him even though He is witnessed by Him, the Almighty, and the one who knows Him knows Him, but such knowledge should not be achieved. It is said that it is not accepted, so if a person witnesses it from himself, it is not po


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