The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 28 · Page 232

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and might arises within their souls on their account.

(Taking Might through God and Self-Disclosure)

Reality says to them: ‘Let the might required for you by this dwelling place be through God, not through yourselves.’

In their dominion they thus take might through God's might. ﴿Might belongs to God﴾ [al-Nisāʾ 4:139] originally, and ﴿to His Messenger and to the believers﴾ [al-Munāfiqūn 63:8] as a divine robe of honor, not originally.

Through this knowledge they are felicitous with God, and find it in the renewed self-disclosure.

Yet the knowers of God remain in perpetual self-disclosure, since they know that the Real is identical to every form.

Alongside this, they have the universal self-disclosure upon the Dune, for that imparts another tasting, different from this tasting they experience perpetually. ﴿God speaks the truth, and He guides the way﴾ [al-Aḥzāb 33:4].

Volume Twenty-Eight ends with the conclusion of Chapter Four Hundred and Ten.

It is followed by Volume Twenty-Nine: Chapter Four Hundred and Eleven, On Knowing the Mutual Encounter: ‘The Book Takes Precedence over Him, So He Enters the Fire,’ from the Presence ‘He Almost Did Not Enter the Fire’; ‘Fear the Book, and Do Not Fear Me, for I and You Are on Equal Terms.’

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