The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Indeed, God cannot be perceived by the eyes ]

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God Almighty said, “Sights cannot perceive Him.” And God Almighty said to Moses, peace be upon him, “You will not see me and every visible thing. If the seer sees it, the seer will not see it except according to his status and rank. He did not see it, and he saw no one but himself. If not, the vision of the two seers would not have been differentiated, since if he were the one seen, he would not have seen anything.” They differed, but since it was the manifestation of their vision themselves, that is why they described it as being manifested and that it is seen, but the seer’s preoccupation with seeing himself in the manifestation of the Truth prevented him from seeing the Truth. Therefore, if his image or the image of one of the universes had not appeared to the seer, perhaps he would have seen it, and only ourselves would have obscured it from him. If we had not seen it, what we had seen had not appeared to the seer. Because what used to remain, then with our disappearance, who


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