The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The possible is either in the grip of the impossible or in the grip of the obligatory ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 116 من الجزء Two

Here is a far-reaching mystery, and the reference to some of its explanation is that every possible thing whose creation is not related to divine knowledge cannot exist, for it is impossible to exist, so the possible was judged to be impossible and attached to it, so it was in the grip of the impossible, and whatever divine knowledge was attached to its creation must exist, it is necessary to exist, so it was judged to be possible. Obligation was in the grip of the obligatory, and had no ruling in view of itself. So the possible was removed from being under the grip of either the impossible or the obligatory, and no status remained for it in itself to be at outside of these two positions. So there is no possibility. So it is either impossible, or obligatory, or the distant abyss. The group They said and held that nothing is possible except that it must exist to an infinite extent, so what is possible is within the realm of the impossible, and there is no doubt that they were wrong


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