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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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Consequently, they directed their sights and hearts toward the Possessor of that form manifest among them, from which those miracles and powers—which all other mortals are utterly incapable of—had appeared. At this juncture, the people who witnessed those miracles manifesting from a mortal like themselves split into two distinct groups: The first group attributed all of that to sorcery, exactly as the Holy Qur'an informs in the statement of He, the Exalted: {And if they see a sign, they turn away and say, 'Continuous sorcery.} 1

With these people we have no discourse, for they have been deprived of the blessing of intellect and have lost the faculty of discernment; they are like cattle, or rather, they are further astray from the path.

As for the second group, they are those for whom the finest reward was predestined. They recognized that it is utterly impossible for any mortal—no matter how elevated in strength, power, sorcery, or divination—to bring forth the likes of those brilliant miracles.

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1Al-Qamar, Verse 2
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