The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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He used to shout, “Laila, Laila” in everything he spoke, for he was imagining that he was lost to her, but he was not. Rather, the imaginary image was too close to her, and he did not see her. He was asking for her as if she had been lost. If she did not see her when she came to him from outside, her apparent image did not match the imaginary internal image that he had caught in her. His imagination of her saw her as if she were competing with that image, so he feared losing her. He said to her, “Stay away from me, for your love has distracted me from you.” He wanted that image to be the essence of love, so he kept asking for it, Laila. Laila. If that image became strong in the lover’s imagination, it affected the beloved. The effect of imagination on the senses is like the one who imagines falling and falls or imagines something. What is frightening is that the mood changes for him and the image of his senses changes. Likewise, this image, when strengthened, affects the beloved,

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As for spiritual love, it is outside this limit and is far from quantity and form. This is because the spiritual forces have a relative connection. So when the lineage is widespread in the considerations between the lover and the beloved through sight, hearing, or knowledge, then that is love. If it is lacking and the lineage is not fulfilled, it is not love, and the meaning of lineage is that souls Which would give and give, directed towards the souls that would receive and hold, and which suffers from lack of acceptance, and which suffers from lack of overflow, even though it is not non-existent, except that the conditions of preparation and time have not been completed. That spirit is called non-overflowing, and it is not correct, as each of the two souls empties energy in Love for the other. If such a love is attainable from the two lovers, the lover does not doubt the separation of his beloved, because he is not from the world of bodies or bodies, so separation occurs between

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As for divine love, from its beautiful name and light, the light advances to the essence of possible things, repelling from them the darkness of its looking at itself and its potential, and creates for it sight that is His sight, since it cannot be seen without it, and it appears to that eye with the beautiful name, and it becomes enamored with it, so the eye of that possible becomes a manifestation of it, and the inner eye is of what is possible in it. It annihilates itself, so you do not know that it is love for Him, Glory be to Him, or it annihilates itself from Him even though it is

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