(Explanation that the senses and reason are stronger evidence than imagination, and for this reason they negated the evidence of reason and the senses in their creed, so it became a monotheist) But it pierces through the thick veils
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The Shaykh :"But it pierces through all the thick veils *** And they are two: the senses, then reason and certainty"
It means that it is obligatory to pierce these veils, which are illusion, imagination, the senses, and reason, so that the reality becomes clear to him. He said: "Veils are upon this matter"
"So the illusion is its sense and its imagination *** And knowledge and the intelligible are in the minds
Veils are upon this matter, so tear them apart, or else *** you will be veiled from gnosis.
And what does "pierce them" mean? It means to tear them, as if they are nothing. It means you do not return to the senses, or illusion, or imagination, or reason, until you grasp the reality.
"This is the thickest of them, the veil of the sense and the *** Intelligible; you are the one who possesses the Criterion"
Why? Because the senses cannot be denied, and reason likewise cannot be denied. But what is perceived by the senses is observed, perceived by direct sight with the eye of the body, and what is perceived by the eye is perceived by the eye of insight. These two are said to be the thickest because they are the strongest in evidence. As for imagination and illusion, that is easy, because a person may imagine things that are not reasonable, and things that cannot exist in imagination or in the senses. But the senses are the difficult part. How is it that the senses perceive that the sheep is not the donkey, is that right?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : And that the child is not the father, and that the stone is not the iron. This is a sense we observe with the senses. Reason likewise perceives that the made is not the maker, and that the created is not the creator, and so on. Therefore, the evidence of the senses and reason regarding the impossibility of what these people went to, the impossibility of what these people went to, is a very clear matter. So it became the thickest for them. He says: "There you became a monotheist" meaning if you break these veils.
"There you became a true monotheist, seeing *** This existence as the reality of the Divine"
We ask Allah for well-being. Meaning, at that time you become a monotheist in truth, seeing that this existence is a reality from the Divine, Allah (Mighty and Majestic).
It means that it is obligatory to pierce these veils, which are illusion, imagination, the senses, and reason, so that the reality becomes clear to him. He said: "Veils are upon this matter"
"So the illusion is its sense and its imagination *** And knowledge and the intelligible are in the minds
Veils are upon this matter, so tear them apart, or else *** you will be veiled from gnosis.
And what does "pierce them" mean? It means to tear them, as if they are nothing. It means you do not return to the senses, or illusion, or imagination, or reason, until you grasp the reality.
"This is the thickest of them, the veil of the sense and the *** Intelligible; you are the one who possesses the Criterion"
Why? Because the senses cannot be denied, and reason likewise cannot be denied. But what is perceived by the senses is observed, perceived by direct sight with the eye of the body, and what is perceived by the eye is perceived by the eye of insight. These two are said to be the thickest because they are the strongest in evidence. As for imagination and illusion, that is easy, because a person may imagine things that are not reasonable, and things that cannot exist in imagination or in the senses. But the senses are the difficult part. How is it that the senses perceive that the sheep is not the donkey, is that right?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : And that the child is not the father, and that the stone is not the iron. This is a sense we observe with the senses. Reason likewise perceives that the made is not the maker, and that the created is not the creator, and so on. Therefore, the evidence of the senses and reason regarding the impossibility of what these people went to, the impossibility of what these people went to, is a very clear matter. So it became the thickest for them. He says: "There you became a monotheist" meaning if you break these veils.
"There you became a true monotheist, seeing *** This existence as the reality of the Divine"
We ask Allah for well-being. Meaning, at that time you become a monotheist in truth, seeing that this existence is a reality from the Divine, Allah (Mighty and Majestic).