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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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Allah sanctified him, said: "None shall triumph in the negation of attributes and the affirmation of the Essence except the one who has boarded the Ark of Salvation, drunk from the Spring of Life, and stood firm in the slippery places of doubts."

And he, Allah sanctified him, said in verse:

Its Essence was not subject to restriction, nor is

the core of its secret anything but a subtle, exalted meaning.

The affirmation of its reality was rendered sound through the negation of attributes,

so that the source of proof itself could stand upright.

It is above the limit of anthropomorphism and stripping away attributes,

and lofty beyond the modalities conceived by intellects.

Dr. Ali Sulayman al-Ahmad said in his commendation of the epistle by the investigative writer and master Hasan Jadid, The Complete Refutation of the Scattering of Illusions:

"Indeed, much of the warfare in opinions and the turmoil in doctrine stems from an erroneous understanding of the meaning of negation and affirmation, which is the very axis of the doctrine of Sayyid Abu Abdallah.

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