The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the breath and its secrets. |
Page 434 - from Volume Two (Display Image)Originally, and for this reason, the truth described itself as contentment, anger, mercy, revenge, forbearance, and oppression. For moderation is not valid with existence or formation. Do you not see that if it were not for the divine direction to create a universe, it would not exist, and if it were not what He said to it, it would be what it would be. When the amount of heat is greater than others in the body, it would have given it Movement and what is then void except as long as this body is alive and must move, so it moves in its place, which is the movement of the medium, because there is no void outside of it, so it moves to it, and movement is required by heat, and it is movement in everyone from transmission. Collected by one body and one ruler, the images accepted the spirits from the soul of the Merciful, just as the letters accepted meanings when they emerged to denote the meaning for which they came out. The world how it was, and God, as we mentioned, has a special face in it and in everything that is found in it, and about that special face is found and the cause is never known. That special face that is caused by its passive cause. For the soul, which is the movement of the soul of the Most Merciful to find words, so He leveled the Throne and united in it the Word of Mercy, then created the image of the Chair, and the word was divided in it, and the feet dangled to Him. Ten proportions, then the quantities spread and he made them signs for royal spirits of different natures. Each tower was named after that king who made that measure with his men inhabiting it, like the towers that circle in the wall of the country and like the ranks of rulers in the king, which are the signs known to the people of teachings, and every sign has three faces, for the first mind has three faces, even if it is one And there is no truth that is in the first except that it must be included in the second, and it increases by a ruling that is not in the first if the preceding one is other than God [ God is with everything ]As for God, He is with everything, so nothing precedes Him and nothing comes after Him, and this ruling is not for anyone other than God, and for this he has a special aspect to every existing because he is the cause of every existing and every existing being is one. It is in the singularity of every one, and if plurality exists, then in view of the singularity of time, which is the circumstance, the existence of truth in this plurality is in the singularity of every one, so only one appeared from it. Each one in terms of his oneness, and this is understood only by the people of God, and the wise say it in a different way, and it is one of the things I erred in, and God has made for each and every one who lives in this tower known rulings about |
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This is the book of the Meccan Revelations, by the Greatest Master Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi The pagination is in agreement with the Cairo edition (Dar al-Kutub al-Arabiya al-Kubra) - al-Maymaniya - known as the Standard Edition. Subtitles have been added within square brackets. |