The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The light, the niche, and the lamp ]

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So behave yourself with God Almighty’s saying: The likeness of His light is like a niche in which is a lamp, i.e. the attribute of His light is the attribute of a lamp, and He did not say the attribute of the sun, for the supply of sunlight is hidden, unlike the lamp, for oil and fat provide it to maintain lighting, so it remains with an oily supply from a tree whose directions are related in one ratio, free from specificity by virtue of the ruling. One aspect is his saying, “There is neither east nor west,” and this supply is from the light of the rosaries that are visible from behind the rosaries of glory, pride, and majesty. What penetrates from the light of the rosaries of these veils is the light of the heavens and the earth, and its likeness is like a lamp, and the light that is in the oil is known and not witnessed. The light of the lamp from its effect indicates it and in reality what it is. Light, but it is a reason for the existence and continuation of the light. Scienti


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