The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The inability of the mind to know God ]

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Knowledge of God is dearer to the understanding of the mind and the soul, except insofar as He exists and is sanctified, and everything He utters against creatures or imagines in vehicles and other things is God Almighty in the view of the sound mind in terms of His thought and infallibility. Otherwise, it is not permissible for him to have that illusion and it does not apply to him. The word is rational in the sense that creatures accept it, and if it is given to it, then it is based on approximation to the understandings, due to the confirmation of existence to the listener, not due to the confirmation of the reality that it is the truth, for God Almighty says, “There is nothing like Him,” but it is obligatory upon us according to Islamic law for the sake of what God Almighty said to His Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him. So know that: There is no god but God. He says, “I know from my information that agrees with your view, so that faith is valid for you with know


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