The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Indeed, God did not send the messengers in vain .]

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Know, O my guardian, that God did not send the messengers in vain, and if minds were independent in matters of their happiness, they would not need the messengers, and the existence of the messengers would be in vain, but since the one upon whom we relied does not resemble us, nor do we resemble him, even if we resembled him in person, our reliance on him would not be more deserving of his reliance on us, so we know with certainty, not knowledge. There is a suspicion in this regard that he is not like us and we are not united by a single truth. Man is necessarily ignorant of what he has, where he is moving, and what is the reason for his happiness, if he is happy, or his misery. He is miserable with the one on whom he relies, because he is ignorant of God’s knowledge of him. He does not know what he wants by him or the reason for his creation, the Almighty, so he became poor. It is necessary for the divine definition of this. If God Almighty had willed, He would have known to ever


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