The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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The remembrance is only to teach him how to remember Him, so he will remind him of a request, a necessity, a lack, and a presence in his request from his Lord, what He has prescribed for him to ask for. That is the one whom the Truth answers if he asks him. If he recites a story, then he is not a questioner, and if he does not ask and narrates the question, then the Truth does not answer. This is his characteristic and there is no crime. Those who follow are the ones who are most likely to tell the story because there is no fruit for them. They recite the Qur’an with their tongues, it does not go beyond their throats, and their hearts are distracted when reciting it and when listening to it. So if you see someone who braves adversity in the right of God, know that he is a sincere believer, and if you see him strong in his resolve in God’s religion and in other than God’s religion, then know that he is He who is strong in spirit, not strong in faith in authenticity, for the believe

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Be poor before God as you are poor to Him, for it is a parable

His saying, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and I seek refuge in You from you

The meaning of your poverty before God is that He does not smell a scent from you. Of the scents of divinity, but of pure servitude, just as there is no servitude in the side of the truth, and it is impossible for Him, for He is pure Lord, so be yourself a pure servant, so be with God by your value, not by your eyes, for your eye on Him is the scents of divinity due to the image He created you in by claim, and your value is not like that. This is what my sheikh advised me. And my teacher Abu Abbas Al-Araibi, may God have mercy on him, it is your value to act according to the situation, not the claim, so be yourself. Whenever your self tells you to be rich in God, I have commanded you to be sovereign, so say to it, “I am poor in God and in what God has made me poor in, for God has made me poor in the need for salt

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You must wear a bond, for it is one of the best conditions of a believer.

When every human being dies, his deeds are sealed, except the one who is bound, for he will be protected until the Day of Resurrection and will be safe from the calamities of the grave. This is proven on the authority of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. < /p

And the bond is that a person should always commit himself to himself, without a limit that he reaches or places within himself. If he binds himself to this matter, then he is a bondman, and the bond in all goodness is that which is specific to it. It is better than goodness, so everything is the path of God, for the path of God is what God has legislated for His servants to do, so what It pertains to sticking to the frontiers only, not to jihad.

The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said that waiting for prayer after prayer is a bond.

And God says in his book to the be

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