(Continuation of the response to the doubts of the people of the Unity of Existence, and the reason people are deceived by them) And perhaps they said their saying as *** they said their saying without distinction, and he refused
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The Shaykh : This is also
from the three previous statements, he says:
That the universe is one thing, the Creator and the created are one thing, and these are manifestations that reveal that Creator, in their claim. Manifestations means not realities, manifestations like how water appears to us, for example, when it falls and meets the sun, which people call the rainbow. It is only manifestations, otherwise it is one thing. This means that we divide the diverse existing things into things that differ in form only, not in reality. This is close to the statement of al-Talimsani that the illusions of these people are their belief in Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and may Allah protect us from it. It is the most evil of beliefs. It has come before us that those who deceived people with these statements, otherwise merely conceiving of them is sufficient to refute and invalidate them. As soon as you conceive of this, you know that it is false. But what deceived and deluded people is that these people held on to asceticism and also used non-explicit phrases, rather they were hints and symbols. If a person reads what he knows and understands their meaning completely, but they interpret them as they wish, so the reader thinks at first that it is truth, but it is falsehood. With these two things, the state was adorned and the speech was adorned, and they deceived people. What is the adornment of the state? Asceticism or monasticism and worship. And the common people, as you know, are like flies. And the second
The student: The example
The Shaykh : The speech is also adorned, and its symbols, such that no one knows what they want until they are taught by them what they want with their words. Therefore, people were greatly deceived by them. Otherwise, as soon as a person hears this statement, may Allah protect us, he is repelled by it and knows that it is false. And listen now to its falsification from the words of the author.
from the three previous statements, he says:
That the universe is one thing, the Creator and the created are one thing, and these are manifestations that reveal that Creator, in their claim. Manifestations means not realities, manifestations like how water appears to us, for example, when it falls and meets the sun, which people call the rainbow. It is only manifestations, otherwise it is one thing. This means that we divide the diverse existing things into things that differ in form only, not in reality. This is close to the statement of al-Talimsani that the illusions of these people are their belief in Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and may Allah protect us from it. It is the most evil of beliefs. It has come before us that those who deceived people with these statements, otherwise merely conceiving of them is sufficient to refute and invalidate them. As soon as you conceive of this, you know that it is false. But what deceived and deluded people is that these people held on to asceticism and also used non-explicit phrases, rather they were hints and symbols. If a person reads what he knows and understands their meaning completely, but they interpret them as they wish, so the reader thinks at first that it is truth, but it is falsehood. With these two things, the state was adorned and the speech was adorned, and they deceived people. What is the adornment of the state? Asceticism or monasticism and worship. And the common people, as you know, are like flies. And the second
The student: The example
The Shaykh : The speech is also adorned, and its symbols, such that no one knows what they want until they are taught by them what they want with their words. Therefore, people were greatly deceived by them. Otherwise, as soon as a person hears this statement, may Allah protect us, he is repelled by it and knows that it is false. And listen now to its falsification from the words of the author.