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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

Epistle on Negation and Affirmation in the Gnosis of the Essence - Sulayman Abd Allah Ali Dahr Matar

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"Conceptions cannot measure Him with limits and movements, nor with limbs and instruments."

And he, glorified is his glory, said:

"A speaker not by reflection, willing not by determination, a maker not by a physical limb, subtle not to be described with concealment, and great not to be described with aloofness."

And he, glorified is his glory, said:

"He Who spoke to Moses with [direct] speech and showed him of His signs a magnificent thing—without physical limbs, without instruments, without speech, and without uvulas."

And he, glorified is his glory, said:

"An agent not by the commotion of an instrument, a fixer of measures not by the wandering of a thought, rich not through acquisition; times do not accompany Him, and instruments do not aid Him."

And he, glorified is his glory, said:

"He is not possessed of a magnitude whereunto dimensions extend, thereby rendering Him large through physical extension (tajsīman); nor is He possessed of a greatness whereunto boundaries culminate,

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