The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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What he speaks to him with, so the worshiper should not be restricted in his prayers in a particular way, and that is why he said that there is a choice in this matter, and all of these forms are permissible and good.

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A group held that if a praying person was performing the Witr prayer, he should not get up until he had sat up straight, while others chose that he should not sit, even if he got up from his prostration himself .

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The praying person is according to what the Truth calls him to do. If he calls him, while he is in a state of prostration, to sit, he sits and then gets up, and if He calls him to get up, he gets up, then it is according to what he finds in himself. We have already discussed sitting in prayer before this, so let it be based on that consideration. As for Sitting between the two prostrations is to combine in his prostration between prostration while standing and prostration while sitting. From the prostration while sitting, he learns from it the secrets of the descent of the Truth from the Throne upon which He, Glory be to Him, has established Himself in the name of the Most Gracious, to the lowest heaven. Thus, in the event that the servant sits between the two prostrations, he is in conversation with the Most Merciful in that He has ascended upon the Throne. And in his prostration from his sitting, he speaks to the Truth by the name of the Lord regarding His descent to His ser

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People disagreed about what the praying person places on the ground when he comes to prostration - whether he places his hands before his knees or not, so a group went to place the hands before the knees, and a group went to place the knees before the hands

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The hands are the place of power, and the knees are the place of reliance. Whoever relies on his Lord with the power that he finds from himself, like a dream with power, says by placing the knees before the hands. And whoever sees that the hands are the place of giving and generosity and sees the Almighty’s saying, “So offer before the hands of your sincerity as charity,” offer the hands on the knees. Then the giver is not devoid of one of two situations: either he gives while he is healthy and stingy, fearing poverty and hoping for life, or he gives while trusting in God and relying on God such that poverty and need do not occur to him because he knows that God knows best what is best for him. Whoever is in this situation puts his knees on his hands and His movements were meager, he struggled with himself for fear of poverty, and he made an effort of himself in giving. He placed his hands on his knees and prostrated. Whatever state he presented from these two states, the othe

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The scholars, may God be pleased with them, agreed that whoever prostrates on the face, hands, knees, and tips of the feet, his prostration has been completed. They disagreed that if he prostrated on his face and one of those organs was missing, is his prayer invalid or not? Some say it is invalid and someone says it is not invalid, and they did not differ regarding whoever prostrates on his forehead. And his nose, then he prostrated on his face. They differed as to whoever prostrated on his forehead, not his nose, or on his nose, not on his forehead. Some say that whoever prostrates on his forehead, not his nose, is permissible, but if he prostrates on his nose, not his forehead, it is not permissible. And whoever says that it is permissible to prostrate on his nose, not his forehead, and on his forehead, without his nose. He said that it is only permissible to prostrate on both of them together.

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The Seven Attributes to which all divine names are attributed and included are life, knowledge, will, power, speech, hearing, and sight. If an attribute or a ratio is missing from them, despite the difference that we have shown regarding their being ratios or attributes, then all of them are invalid, that is, it is not valid for the Truth to be a God, and this is the consideration of what It is not permissible to pray except by prostrating on the seven limbs, for they are to the Divine Presence in the same position as the limbs are for this prostrator. Whoever says that the face is necessary, by agreement, like life, is one of these attributes, which are a condition for the existence of the remaining seven attributes or lineage, despite the difference we have shown. So who is a scholar who says that hearing and sight return? To knowledge, and knowledge does not need them, and they are two levels of knowledge, the same as hearing and seeing, so they are of knowledge with a spec

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