The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Whoever sees the truth has seen himself ]

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And from that, he who sees the truth has seen himself. He said, “Whoever wants to see the truth, let him see himself.” Just as

He who knows himself knows his Lord.

Likewise, whoever sees himself has seen his Lord or Whoever sees his Lord has seen himself, according to those who know that the Sharia has closed in this saying the door to knowledge of God due to its knowledge that no one can attain knowledge of himself, for the soul does not reason apart from its relationship to a structure that it manages, whether it is light or dark. This relationship is for this reason that God does not intelligible except a God other than a God who does not intellect, so it is not possible to know Him by abstracting Him from the desired world, and if He does not intellect in isolation from the world, then His essence is not intelligible and does not witness as it is, then knowledge of Him is likened to knowledge of the soul, and the one who combines is the absence of abstraction


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