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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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and: {Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Seeing,} 1

and: {What prevented you from prostrating to that which I created with My two hands?} 2

and: {Oh [how I regret] that I fell short of my duty to the side of Allah,”} 3

quoting from al-Jali, Allah sanctified his secret, his saying: "If you assign components to the Essence (al-Ma'na), then there must inevitably be a divider that divided it. Rather, we say: He is entirely an unseen realm (ghayb), entirely knowledge, entirely power, entirely hearing, entirely sight, entirely a face, and entirely an essence."

And it came in The Refutative Treatise (al-Raddadiyyah): "Thus, the ignorant person imagines that the Essence of Allah is described by those attributes through which we see Him—such as the head, the forehead, the hand, the foot, the knee, and walking in the marketplaces—and this is the very essence of disbelief (al-kufr) and deliberate obstinacy after clear insight..."

Footnotes

1Luqman - Verse 28
2Sad - Verse 75
3Al-Zumar - Verse 56
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