The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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So we say that it is an existential matter in that He sees us, just as we said in us in that we perceive Him. The matter is one, for we are free in us and in Him. So who are we and who is He? Some of us said to him, “Show me, I will look at you.” He said, “You will not see me.” He said about himself, “Did he not know that God sees and His experience is true?”

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I may know that some of the scholars know that God sees. Then he said with the instrument of correction, and he added, “But look at the mountain. If it stays in its place, you will see me.” Then he appeared to the mountain, and the mountain collapsed. I do not know about a vision or the beginning of a vision, nay, about the beginning of a vision, and Moses was struck by that beginning, so when He woke up, he said

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I repented, that is, I returned to the state in which I did not ask you for the vision, and I am the first of the believers, that is, those who believe in your saying, “You will not see me,” for this saying was not initially revealed to anyone except me, for I am the first to believe in it. Then he who heard it will follow me in believing in it until the Day of Resurrection. It did not appear to the seeker of the vision, nor to the mountain, because if he had seen it, he would follow me in believing in it. The mountain or Moses stood still and did not collapse or be struck, for He is exalted in existence, so He only gives existence because all goodness is in His hands, and existence is all goodness. Since the effect of striking and being crushed is not visible, these are conditions of annihilation, and annihilation is similar to nothingness, and the truth does not lack the nonexistence of the entity, but it has additional nothingness, which is going and moving, so it transports you. O

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The secret is that whose truth is concealed *** and revelation reveals it to all who have sight .

If it were not for stomachs, and if it were not for the secret of His wisdom *** God would not have preferred a created being over humans

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