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The Clarification of Wills in the Forms of Acts of Worship - Volume 1 - Habib Eid Al-Saleh

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Allah struck a proverb for this meaning in Surah Al-Imran, saying:

{Indeed, I have come to you with a sign from your Lord: that I design for you from clay that which is like the form of a bird, then I breathe into it and it becomes a bird by Allah's permission.} (Al-Imran: 49).

Reflect, O brother, upon this proverb which indicates that Allah is capable of showing the people, through His power, human forms, lineages, and other things—just as He showed them through Lord Christ a bird from clay by Allah's permission. Indeed, Allah is Powerful over all things.

Our Luminous Sheikh pointed toward this meaning in his poem, saying:

He shows them the Essence as a depiction by His power

Exalted is the Depictor beyond the depiction of an embodied being.

Confirming and supporting this is what Lord Christ—peace be upon him—declared in the third chapter of the Gospel of John, saying:

{And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life... (until His saying): And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and

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