The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ When God placed in the soul the practical power, He revealed through it the form of the body, the whole being in the substance of dust. ]

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Know that when God Almighty placed practical power in the soul, God revealed by it the form of the body, the whole, in the essence of atom, so He created emptiness and emptiness as an imaginary extension in other than a body. And when we saw this body, the whole, it accepted no form except roundness, we knew that emptiness was round, since this body was. The lifespan of emptiness, for what is outside the body is not characterized by emptiness or boredom. Then God opened in this body the forms of the world and made this body, when He created it, round, so that by it He lived through all the emptiness. His movement was in its emptiness, so it is not a movement of moving away from it, but rather its movement in it in its entirety is like the movement of a millstone. You look at its movement in all of it and find it. It has not moved from its place, and you look at the movement of each part of it and you find it moving from its space to another space with the movement of the whole. Th


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