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

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For if the one who has attained purity and ascended could not witness Him except within humanity alone, what benefit would there be in his purity? And from what exactly did he become pure, when the pure one only purifies himself away from humanity and toward luminosity? How then could it be permissible that he who has attained purity and become light should perceive his Creator as a mortal in a form lower than his own form? Heaven forbid!"

And Sheikh Sulayman al-Ahmad, Allah sanctified his secret, said:

"Had the attribution of humanity been an inseparable necessity for the Creator in His manifestation and hiddenness, He would not have said: 'The people of purity perceived Him through purity.' Therefore, since it is established that the veils are false, being exclusively bound to the people of elemental mixture and from their own genre, it is mandatory to declare the Creator transcendent above them, to confine their necessity to those people alone, and to restrict their subsistence entirely to their dense, deficient visions."

And Sheikh Abd al-Hadi Haydar, Allah sanctified his secret, said:

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