The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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As for the sickness of induction, it is not valid in beliefs, since their foundation is based on clear evidence. If we were to infer everyone from whom a workmanship appears, we would find him a body, and we would say that the world is the work and action of the Truth. We have followed the craftsmen, and we have not found a maker except one who has a body, for the Truth is a body, God is greatly exalted above that, and we have followed the evidence. In modern matters, we did not find a knower in and of himself. Rather, the evidence indicates that there is no knower except through an attribute in addition to his essence that is called knowledge, and its ruling regarding the one who has it is that he is a knower, and we have learned that the Truth is a knower, so he must have knowledge, and that knowledge is an attribute in addition to himself that is subsisting with him. No, rather it is. God is the All-Knowing, the Living, the Powerful, the All-Aware, the All-Aware. All of this is


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