The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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In this state, she does not know that she is a manifestation of Him, Glory be to Him, and she finds in herself that she loves herself, for everything is created to love itself, and nothing is apparent except Him in the eyes of the possible. So God loves no one but God, and the servant is not characterized by love, since he has no judgment in it. What she loves about him is what is apparent in him, and he is what is apparent. She also does not know that she loves him, so she seeks him and loves to love him in that she is looking at herself with his eyes. The same love for her to love him is precisely her love for him, and for this reason this light is described as having rays, meaning that it is radiant because it extends from the truth to the very essence of the possible, to be. He is shown by the accusative letter “ha” and not a passive participle. If from this characteristic of his he combines the opposites in his description, then he is the possessor of divine love, for it lead

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What is the cup of love ?

The answer is that the heart belongs to the lover, not his mind or his senses, for the heart fluctuates from one state to another, just as God, who is the beloved, is in a matter every day, so the lover varies in his attachment of love to the beloved’s diversity in his actions, like a pure white glass cup. It varies according to the diversity of the fluid it is in. The color of the lover is the color of his beloved, and this is only for the heart .

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