الفتوحات المكية (Meccan Revelations)

...from the sciences, and the knowledge of the world and the Hereafter, and the beginning and the return. The first key of these treasuries that the servant is given by the inspiration is the key of the treasuries of knowledge of the existent absolutely, without restriction to accidental or eternal, by what was absent from it by itself or by its opposite, which is non-existence. So the existent appeared by existence in its essence, for it appears by all the rulings of negation and affirmation, amazement and possibility, impossibility and existence and non-existence, and found and did not find. And all this does not end, and it is not valid except from an existence that is its essence and its reality, a face that does not accept the end; it does not end upon it, for the realities are a sea and in it are existing. So it says to you: "The Truth in its essence is one, and all its reality is a name." So He has names.

So if existence and the treasuries are existence, and the Truth gave you the key to these treasuries and the books, your knowledge of Him is His knowledge of you. So you are the first known, and you are the last known; and you are the last existent, and He is the first existent. For it is not in your power to know anyone; He is, for knowledge is the height, and if it were not so, it would not be knowledge. This is the Truth in which there is no doubt, a guidance for the God-fearing. And one from every side, an essence standing, or an essence in an essence, or no essence in an essence. And I mean by essence in essence the relationships, for they are not essences, and their judgment is sciences in the essences. So they have no existence except by the judgment, so they have the existence that we mentioned, the servant of the King, one like the letter alif doubled in the beast likely referring to the calligraphic form of the letter. So it appeared in your existence that the particularity of the First is the opposite of the world between you and Him. So sincerity will be the station, it prevents it, and it does not suffice for you in the kingdom. And there appeared to you the knowledge of the encompassing world that He brought out from those treasuries, a witness of details for the knowledge of it. So you knew of knowledge what the world did not know of itself, from the high letters which are those treasuries, from what does not end in the attainment of knowledge. So whoever encompassed one of the two, an origin of knowledge in general, it was only completed as likenesses for what... and God is the Encompassing until He limited the inscribed and the encompassing, and the point of the circle. So the line happened from the points and the circumference, and they did not exceed. For if the line stretches, it is only so it does not stop from the circumference, for it is the softness of the knowledge of what it came out from, so its image is the mark, other than the image of its training by a helper other than knowing its end, the first. The softness of the arrows of the circumference passed by the compass, it blocks it from that first circumference, and its self, a location from that apparent and the hidden, and the inscribed is apparent also, like the first beginning, until it is upon an image, not of the impossible that it comes out upon other than their images.

A model of control in the circumference, what appeared in the first circumference to what does not end, and it is what emerges from the King of the treasuries, what does not end, what it contains. And it is the new creation in which existence is always and forever. And some people, or most people, are in confusion regarding that, as the Almighty said: "Nay, they are in confusion regarding a new creation," with the breaths, but in the image of what we mentioned. So the point is a cause in the existence of the circumference, and the circumference is a cause in obtaining the knowledge of the point. And the point is Truth and creation, so these are two rulings that flow in every circle that appeared from the first circle. And when the circles appeared without end, when they reached and I said, "Do not appear between them," the first circle that brought these circles into existence vanished. And the circumference is not known and not attained between every circle that drew near to it or moved away from it, for it is upon its image. So every circle is said in it: "To witness what is in it, what it witnesses." So this is richness in testimony, and the circle appearing in the first circle, its number is what is other than the number of the genera, whatever they were. It is not intended in it and not aimed from it, and what came out and happens from it of the circles to what does not end are the circles of the individuals of those genera to what does not end. And that is the essence of the circle of the individual upon a command, meaning its type, and it is what is between the sensory and the individual. So types happened for you in types, but limited and not known except by individuals, because the type is intelligible between the general genus and every average between two ends. If you wish, you said: "The two ends showed the judgment of the average." And if you wish, you said: "The average showed the judgment of the two ends." And this is the essence of knowing the Truth by the creation and the creation by the Truth. For if it were not for the witnessing of the creation by the Truth, it would not be; and if it were not for the witnessing of the Truth by the creation, it would not be. So from a speaker: "Be, and it is," you are; and whoever is said to, and they were not except from who is by His saying, "Be." So from his knowledge of the creation, he knows His truth; and from his knowledge of the Truth, he was and was not. So the circumference preserves the point as knowledge, and the point preserves the circumference as existence. And each one of them is preserving and preserved, observing and observed. The Almighty said: "A witness and a witnessed." So the witness is a witness, a speaker, a speaker, favoring and favored. So if one of them said "I," the other said "I"; and if the other said, "Not I," the other said, "Not you." So each one does not appear to the other except by what he guides him with, and the difference is valid between them. So O Truth and O creation, for whom do you perish? For whom do you remain? I drank a drink from it and I choked on it, my creation. So nothing was completed except an essence, so whoever accepts, whoever meets. So he said to me, the One who enriched me: "When you speak, then precede." For the command is limited between the creation and the Truth; for if it were not for that, we would not be. So hide the command and the Truth. So you, O guardian of the revealed reminder, so you are the preserved and the one revealed to, so you are the guardian. So do not close your eye, for it is in the arts of a command, what suffices. And your goal is to say: "I am He," so He revealed "He, He," so what is He? This clarifies for you what you narrate forever, and it is mighty from the ancient. So the goal is to you by its determination and addition...