The Meccan Revelations

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Form or image · الصورة

What appears or is received in a particular account. Distinguish the form from its locus and from a judgment about it.

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Read by identifying two sides and what separates and connects them. Its eschatological context needs its own explanation.

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A receptive and changing locus in the account of knowing; the term is not exhausted by an opposition between emotion and reason.

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A faculty whose operations and limits must be identified in context. Do not treat every occurrence as the opposite of spiritual knowledge.

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A mode of disclosure discussed in relation to knowing. Identify who receives it and the claim made; the label alone does not verify a statement.

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Read with attention to what appears, the recipient and their relation. Differences in reception are part of the discussion.

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The receptivity or disposition through which a form is received; specify whose preparedness and which manifestation the passage concerns.

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Distinguish existing through oneself from existing through another, and appearance from what is fixed in knowledge, within the cited argument.

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In the selected comparison, the status of what is known, distinguished from appearing in concrete existence; not simply another word for duration.

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