The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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The soul was manifested in a natural form, and the judgment was applied as we mentioned in divine love, both in terms of accepting that form for the apparent and the hidden. You do not deviate from that path. Know that. The spiritual person combines natural and spiritual love with love for himself and for his beloved, if his beloved, as we said, has a will, and it will become clear to you. What we have decided is that people do not know what they love, and that their beloved is included in some existing entity, so they imagine that they love that existing entity, but it is not so. So know as much as I have informed you of, and thank God, as He has saved you from ignorance of Me, and this amount is sufficient for the intended purpose, for there are many ramifications in it, and our purpose in this book is to collect the principles and praise. To God

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In natural love ,

It is of two types, natural and elemental, and we forgot to mention the goal of spiritual love. Let us remember it.

In natural love,

because of its attachment to the natural form, its goal is union, which is to become one’s self. The beloved is the essence of the lover, and the lover is the essence of the beloved, and it is what the subsistence refers to, and it has no knowledge of the form of the matter. Know that the natural form, in any case, its appearance is a body or a body in whatever relation it may be. The beloved, who is non-existent, and if he is non-existent, then he is represented in the imagination and has a variety of types. Existence perceived with the imaginary sight in the imaginary presence with the eye that befits it. So, if the two lovers embrace each other and each one of them absorbs the saliva of the other, and that saliva dissolves in the soul of each of the two lovers, and each one breathes out of the two images wh

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Know that natural love by itself, if it is initiated by the lover, is that he does not love the beloved except for the bliss and pleasure he has in it, so he loves him for himself, not for the eyes of the beloved. It has become clear to you in the above that this truth applies in divine and spiritual love. As for the beginning of natural love, it is for bounties and benevolence. Nature does not know this in a single sentence, but rather loves things for their own sake in particular, so he wants to contact them and get close to them, and he lives in every animal, and he is in man insofar as he is an animal, so the animal loves him in the same matter for the strength of his existence .

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