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The Raddadiyah Epistle - Yusuf ibn al-Ajuz al-Raddad al-Ḥalabi

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whosoever] 1 followed me, and he said therein: This man, it has reached me that he worships the unseen,and the unseen is subject [to] 2 addition and deficiency, and he dispatched it to the village of Isfin, so they read it to the teacher Utarid and whosoever followed him, and they found most of the speech that was therein was firm with me and refuted upon them, so they turned away [from it] 3 and threw it to the hands of the [beginner]4 boys to read it in the gatherings and upon the roofs, [and mock it, and they did not know what was written therein and inscribed]5 .

THE KNOWLEDGE OF SHEIKH YUSUF OF THE PLOT OF MOSES

So a man among the brothers felt protective over it, and brought it to my hands, so I read it and pondered its meanings, and I found therein for myself the position of the target, and he had inscribed therein my targets,

Footnotes

1In another manuscript: and dispraised therein for me and for whosoever
2In another manuscript: by it.
3In another manuscript: by it.
4In another manuscript: the despotic.
5It does not exist in some manuscripts.
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