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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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“He is transcended above occupying a body [hulūl] and transition in space,

And above the abandoned speech of him who has abandoned truth.”

The Allamah said concerning 'transcended above occupying a body': "Meaning: above unification with physical forms (al-abdān), even if He manifests to plain sight. Space (al-ayn) means existence and time, and according to the scholars of philosophy, it is the occupation of space by a physical body... up to his saying: And what meaning would there be for transcending the Truth above transition and occupying a body, had He not manifested them both to the people of intellect—those who deduced the negation of physical forms through the affirmation of divine decree?"

And he also said:

“And he thought me an embodiment-believer [mujassidan] in describing her,

By a form through which, turning blind, he became an embodiment-believer himself.”

“While he knew not that for her Essence,

I have become divested [mujarradan] from her attributes.”

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