The Meaning of the Poet's Statement: "But its restricted abstraction is established *** And everything else is impossible without possibility"
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The Shaykh :"But its restricted abstraction is established *** And everything else is impossible without possibility"
Its restricted abstraction, restricted by what? By meaning in relation to speech, and by attribute in relation to entities. It is established, and everything else is impossible, meaning that other than restricted abstraction is impossible; it does not exist at all except in the mind, as has passed.
"The abstraction of entities from a description and from *** a position, and from a time and place for them,
is a supposition of the minds that they posit, like *** the negation of the impossible; these are two suppositions for them"
It is correct that an entity exists abstracted from description, abstracted from position, not occupied by place or time. This is something posited as a supposition, for there is no entity that does not have a description, and there is no entity that is not occupied by time or place. As for what the mind posits, that an entity exists with no description, no place, and no time, this has no reality.
Its restricted abstraction, restricted by what? By meaning in relation to speech, and by attribute in relation to entities. It is established, and everything else is impossible, meaning that other than restricted abstraction is impossible; it does not exist at all except in the mind, as has passed.
"The abstraction of entities from a description and from *** a position, and from a time and place for them,
is a supposition of the minds that they posit, like *** the negation of the impossible; these are two suppositions for them"
It is correct that an entity exists abstracted from description, abstracted from position, not occupied by place or time. This is something posited as a supposition, for there is no entity that does not have a description, and there is no entity that is not occupied by time or place. As for what the mind posits, that an entity exists with no description, no place, and no time, this has no reality.