The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The sleep of those who know ]

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As for the sleeper’s consideration of knowing this knowledge, he is one who is obscured by consideration of his nature and the ruling on it without looking at its component, which is a special type of forgetfulness because he neglects the work or does not perform the required work in that case, so if his looking, which is his sleep, is in the ruling. His nature, in terms of what its reality for itself requires, is neither a memory nor a viewer of the existence of its essence. God did not hold him accountable for what he lacked in the manners with which he seeks the present while knowing it. When this sleeper awakens, he brings within himself the truth, the Creator of the eye, that nature, along with establishing its ruling that follows from the existence of its essence, as in the circumstances, so he behaves with the presence that befits that. The issue is with God, so he is in the same position as one who did not sleep during that conjuration. If he did not do that, he will be pu


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