The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Among the saints, may God be pleased with them, are the prophets, may God’s prayers be upon them. God entrusted them with prophethood, and they are men whom He created for Himself and chose for His service. He singled them out from all the other servants of His Presence. He legislated for them what they should worship within themselves. He did not command some of them to pass on those acts of worship to others by way of obligation. The position of prophethood is a special position in guardianship. They are based on a law from God, who has made things permissible for them or forbidden things for them and restricted them to others, since the earthly abode required that because it is the abode of death and life, and God Almighty said: He who created death and life that He may test you, and the obligation is the test.

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Guardianship is a general prophecy, and the prophecy with which legislation is a specific prophecy that applies to whoever has this status of this type, and it is the position of exaltation in the divine speech. If nothing else is commanded, not in witnessing, then the position of prophecy is exaltation in the speech .

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Among the saints, may God be pleased with them, are the messengers, may God’s prayers and peace be upon them. God entrusted them with the message. They are the prophets sent to a group of people, or it is a general message to the people. This did not happen except to Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and he conveyed on behalf of God what God commanded him to convey in his saying, O Messenger. Convey what has been sent down to you from your Lord, and the duty of the Messenger is nothing but the conveyance .

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So the status of conveying the message is what is expressed in the message and nothing else. We have not stopped talking about the status of the Messenger and the Prophet, the owner of the law, except that the condition of the people of the path in what they inform about of the stations and conditions is that it be from taste, and there is no taste for us, nor for anyone else, nor for those who are not a prophet, the owner of the law, in the prophecy of legislation. Nor in the message. So how can we speak in a position that we have not reached and in a state that we have not tasted? Neither I nor anyone else, who is neither a prophet with the law of God nor a messenger. It is forbidden for us to speak about it. We only speak about what we have taste in. Other than these two positions, we have the right to speak about it according to taste, because God does not. His room

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Among the saints are also the truthful ones, may God be pleased with all of them. God has given them trustworthiness. God Almighty said, “Concerning those who believe in God and His Messenger, those are the truthful ones.” So the truthful one is the one who believes in God and His Messenger, according to the words of the informer, with no evidence other than the light of faith that he finds in his heart, which prevents him from hesitation or doubt that enters him into... The saying of the informer, the Messenger, and based on the truth, faith in the Messenger, and faith in God is based on closeness, not on proving it, as some of the truthful people have proven the existence of truth by necessity or consideration, but what has been proven is that it is closeness, and this verse indicates the honor of proving existence.

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Then if the Messenger believes in him, the truthful one believes in what he brought and what he brought about the monotheism of God, which is his saying, “Say there is no god but God”

Or know that there is no god but God, so know that he is one in his divinity in terms of his saying, so know that There is no god but God, then that is called faith, and the believer in it is called to this extent a friend. If he looks at evidence that indicates the truth of his statement, then know that there is no god but God, and finds his monotheism after looking, so the Messenger is truthful in his saying, and God is truthful in saying to him, there is no god but God, then he is not a friend, and he is a believer. From evidence, he is knowledgeable. He has made clear to you the status of truthfulness, and that the truthful is the one with the light of faith that he finds necessary in the eye of his heart, like the light of sight that God placed in the sight, and the servant has no gain

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However, then the place of closeness is general prophecy, not the prophecy of legislation, so the prophet of legislation confirms it, so the friend confirms it to confirm the prophet who legislated it, not from his own standpoint, and then he is a friend, like the case of Moses, al-Khidr, and the boy of Moses, who is his friend, and for every messenger there are friends, either from the world of mankind and the jinn, or from one of them. Whoever believes from a light in his heart who has no evidence from outside except the saying of the Messenger, say, and finds no stopping and hastening, then that is the friend. If he believes from sight and evidence from outside, or stops at the statement until God created that light in his heart and believes, then he is a believer, not a friend, for the light of the friend is prepared before the existence of the believer. Through it, the light of the untruthful believer is found after

The saying of the Messenger, “Say there is no god bu

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