The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Lust is a natural, restricted will ]

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Then know that lust is a natural, restricted will, and will is a divine, spiritual, natural attribute whose attachment remains non-existent, and it is more general in its attachment than lust, for every fact of them relates to what is appropriate, and what is appropriate is what associates it in origin, so desire relates only to the attainment of a natural matter, so if a person finds an inclination towards something other than natural. Such as his inclination to perceive meanings, higher spirits, perfection, and to see the truth and knowledge of it, is not devoid of this inclination. As for his inclination to all of that by way of taking pleasure in imagining my images, that is the attachment of desire and its inclination for the sake of the image. If imagination embodies what is not a body, then that is an act of nature, even if that inclination is related to something other than this. The imagination that occurs, rather, the meanings, spirits, and perfection remain in their sta


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