The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Existent, and through it, He was his Lord, and there was no relationship between the one being desired and the essence of the Lord. For this reason, there was nothing about the essence, as the owners of causes and effects say. The essence does not direct itself to create things from its being an entity, but rather it directs itself over things from the ratio of power to it and the lack of hindrance, and that is what is called divinity. Likewise, the natures were arranged by God in a strange order for the sake of transformations. He made the element of fire followed by air, the element of air followed by water, and the element of water followed by earth. Thus, between water and fire there is a natural repulsion in all aspects, and between air and earth there is a natural repulsion in all aspects. So He made the mediators between them because they have two aspects, and each of the following two extremes has a special occasion. If the truth wanted to transform water into fire, and it

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And know that there is no place, no contest, no station, and no state except that between them there is an isthmus in which the servant stops, and it is called the Mawaqif, and this is what the author of the Mawaqif, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Nafri, may God have mercy on him, spoke about in his book called the Mawaqif. With the situations in which he says, “The truth stopped me in such and such a situation,” then that noun he adds to it is the position to which it moves, or the station, or the state, or the position, except for his saying, “He stopped me in a situation after the situations,” for that situation is named without the noun of what it moves to, and it is the situation after which there is nothing that suits the first, which is When the Truth wants to move it from a position to a state, from a state to a position, from a position to a position, from a position to the positions, or from the positions to the position, the benefit of these situations is that if the

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