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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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For that form, even if it appeared to our eyes like our own form, is in reality contrary to what we saw it to be regarding human composition.

The monotheists have confirmed this meaning, just as the saying of Sheikh Mahmoud Sulayman al-Khatib, Allah sanctified him: "From this sentence—meaning she is He, yet He is not she—we have taken affirmation from negation, and negation from affirmation. So from the saying of the Sheikh (she is He), we took affirmation, sensory witnessing, manifestation, appearance, existence, and presence. And from his saying (yet He is not she), we took the negation of the sensory object that is subject to perception, encompassing, creation, human homogeneity, and the fifteen states."

And Sheikh Kamil Salih Ma'ruf said: "(She is He) from the aspect of reality and the Essence; (yet He is not she) from the aspect of what the sights saw, to repel boundary and restriction, and to affirm existence and manifestation."

It came in The Epistle of the Boundary (Risalat al-Hadd): "The meaning of his saying (she is He) is by way of existence and sensory witnessing so that the manifestation may be valid, the presence verified, the existent found,

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