الفتوحات المكية (Meccan Revelations)

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...and the Afterlife. In it is the installation of proofs for those who do not know the command except by treasure and victory. In it is the knowledge of what can be attributed to God, for the relationships by which others know Him from Him are not those by which He knows His own self—God—and what God attributes by God. In it is the knowledge of the existence of all beings from the category of the favored, whom God favored, and upon whom He favored, and why God favored them. And knowledge is these favors upon him from the sum of the favored, so he is the eye of the favored by a rational name. In it is the knowledge of death in life and life in death, and who is the Living who does not die, and the dead who does not live, and who dies and lives, and who does not die and does not live. In it is the knowledge of the cause of the existence of thoughts in the sciences, and what does not rely from it to the divine presence, which is His saying to His servant: "We have what is attributed to it, what appeared from it of the rejected matters, which, if it knows its perfection as it knows who is attributed that effect to it, and why it was called rejected, while it is known." In it are those who enjoin the good and do its secret, while they are known to Him. Among them are those who enjoin the evil, and they are from the evil, and it is not known to Him. And from the evil is what is not imaginable in God, for kufr disbelief is an action, and faith in God, and the face that is not known except to God. In it is the knowledge of who believes from insight. In it is the knowledge of the rank of the phantoms of walking towards Him, and who has no return to him from Him, nor does he run in it, nor behind what is correct for him, nor does he know the way of arrival, the path in it, for it is his blessing and his traders. He looks at his saying: "From us, so all is to Him," and what he loves and hates, and where he is, and that there is no hundred except by the hidden favor that does not... the favor is not established there upon the limit of favor, and there is no thing there that is a traveler upon this space, as if it is what you see as knowledge that the knower knows, for it is praised and initiated; it is not attributed to it except the absolute knowledge. Therefore, it is from the characteristics of the Truth. In it is the knowledge of the difference of natures between those who are composed of it, and the performance of the difference from both of them for him. And there is no judgment of the difference in them, as the authority of difference in its nature was made for him, as its judgment is the natural difference. For its difference appeared by the separation from Him; it is a strange matter in the Transcendent, and the judgment by separation is the difference by action, and it is the single. In it is the knowledge of the wisdom of why the knowledge of the command is placed one upon another in the sky, and from it with the firm from that is its identity. In it is the knowledge of the rank of those whose knowledge has grown, those whose knowledge has decreased, and those whose knowledge has decreased from those, and those whose knowledge has decreased from a multitude. Even if the honor is in the scarcity of knowledge, why did God command His Messenger (peace be upon him) to seek the increase of knowledge, and increase is a multitude? And whoever was knowing from the information, even if they were fewer, he judges the information of the Lord, and it is the eye of the three upon the multitude, which is the master of one knowledge, and there is no less than the one in many information. So he is ignorant in the information of the oneness in his information to the knower, by what he secreted alone. And from it, from him, upon this chain, except from the chained support, for what was said in "and We preferred us over those." Like the faith of man, whenever he rises in his knowledge, in knowledge, his sciences decrease, and whenever he spreads from this rank that widened for his chest, some knowledge by negligence, and he means the measure of knowledge and the essence from the way of witnessing. And his opinion in the knowledge was the monotheism, the ḥikmī philosophical/wisdom-based people who prove monotheism by number and make it a proof for the oneness of the Truth and for His gathering from the like. In it is the knowledge of the essential return and the spiritual gathering in the world.

attributed to God, for it is known to Him, and the senses are its path and its connector to Him. And acting upon the command is the required thing, not what has been obtained. I have seen the Imams mentioning the difference between the call to prayer with the loss of the sense of sight—the sight is obtained, and its relationship, so he sees what he is in, there is nothing in it but the announcement of monotheism to those interested in it, meaning: which tongue knows that? And what is the hearing that perceived this announcement except upon the one who followed the favored from it? For he did not follow them in them, a deed is said in it, whether he heard or not. In it is the knowledge of the rank of the human animal and the rank of the al-insān al-kāmil Perfect Human, in which it is not from the al-insān al-kāmil except by action. And that the al-insān al-kāmil differs from the human animal in the multitude, and that the human animal is in the position of a dawn in the animal, and it is the perfect one without increase. For the true perfection is not attained by the human animal, and it is what he is distinguished by from the sciences of unveiling, tasting, and sound thought. In it is the knowledge of the proof of God by the command, and where it surrounded by the aspect of causes. And when it was obtained for the seen, a position from it of action and knowledge, in their affirmation is ignorance, and the virtue of stripping His servants. And whoever affirmed them by the mind, he is an associate. And when he was a believer, every believer is a believer from insight. In it is the knowledge of the rank of the phantoms of walking towards Him... [Text repeats as above] ...In it is the knowledge of the essential return and the spiritual gathering in the world.