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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 the hand with which He strikes whatever He wills by His command; and it is a hand unlike other hands, and a tongue unlike other tongues."

And it came in The Success-Bringing Treatise (al-Najhiyyah): "The attributes of the face, the two hands, the side, and whatever resembles and belongs to that category have been lifted from the Essence (al-Ma'na) and assigned to the Name (al-Ism); for such is its station in relation to its Creator."

And it came in the introduction to The Compendium of Festivals (Majmu' al-A'yad): "And his pure prayers and pleasing salutations be upon His invented light and His innovated veil—His speaking tongue among His servants, His eye that glances and sees, His ear that listens to secret discourse, His supreme, striking hand, His throne whose extent cannot be reached, His chair of lofty peaks, His aspect that cannot be contained, His side (janb) which the people of wretchedness neglected, and His ancient house that does not decay. [He is] not like an eye possessing physical sight and eyelids, nor like a hand possessing a palm and fingertips, nor like a tongue contained by the uvulas, nor a face like perishable faces, nor a house like constructed houses, nor an instrument like fleshy instruments,

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