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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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And it came in Tuhfat al-Akhyar by Sheikh Mahmud Husayn Ba'mrah, Allah sanctified him: "The maker of a thing is not exhausted by presenting His Essence to His existents in the description of their likeness, so that they may arrive at the knowledge of their worshiped One."

And the second reason: is the intensity of the purity of the light, for the lofty Essence, due to the intensity of the purity of Its light upon Its appearance, the image of the looker appears in It, so It is like a mirror, as al-Makzun, Allah sanctified him, said:

Everyone sees You like his own eye

Since You were the mirror of existence

Sheikh Sulayman al-Ahmad said in the commentary of this verse: "Meaning every single one sees You like his own description, because You are the mirror of existence, and the looker into the mirror sees nothing except his own image."

And al-Makzun also said:

He manifested to me, so He revealed me to my eye

Just as the mirror reveals my image to me

The commentator said: "And the meaning: due to the intensity of the purity of the light of the Truth during the state of

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