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“Through unveiling, we have established what contradicts clear reason.”
The explanation is that, in their experience of unveiling, they direct their hearts without knowing the Lord who is distinct from His creation, so that they might turn towards Him. Thus they witness the absolute existence common to existent entities. Although it does not exist in external reality, their hearts delimit it and apprehend it as absolute, with each determinate entity having a share of it.
As for this absolute existence pervading created things, although its existence within them is determinate and particular, and it is what is called
ثبت عندنا في الكشف مايناقض صريح العقل وذلك أن الذي ينكشف لهم أنهم متوجهون بقلوبهم توجهًا لا يعرفون فيه الرب البائن عن خلقه حتى يقصدوه فيشهدون الوجود المطلق المشترك بين الموجودات وإن لم يوجد في الخارج لكن القلوب تحدده وتأخذه مطلقًا وفي كل معين منه حصة وهذا الوجود المطلق الساري في الكائنات وإن كان وجودًا فيها علي وجه التعيين والتخصيص وهو الذي يقال