The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The difference between seeing and watching ]

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That is why we differentiated between vision and witnessing, and we said in witnessing that it is the witness of the witness who is in the heart of the truth, and he is the one who is bound by the sign, and vision is not like that, and that is why Moses said, “My Lord, show me that I may look at You,” and what he said, “Give me witness,” for he is witnessed by what he missed, and how can he be absent from the prophets and not absent from the saints? Those who know it, so he said to him, “You will not see me.” The mountain was not more honorable to God Almighty than Moses. Rather, he attributed it to the mountain because God, Glory be to Him, mentioned in His saying, “The creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of people, but most people do not know, and the mountain is from the earth, and Moses is from people, so the creation of the mountain is greater than the creation of Moses.” The path of meaning, i.e. the ratio of the earth and sky to the side of tr


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