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(Ibn al-Mu‟tazz).
In general the man to whom He has granted no immediate experience at all, apprehends no more of what
prophetic revelation really is than the name. The miraculous graces given to the
saints are in truth the
beginnings of the prophets; and that was the first „state‟ of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon
him when
he went out to Mount Hira‟, and was given up entirely to his Lord, and worshipped, so that the
Bedouin said,
„Muhammad loves his Lord passionately‟.
Now this is a mystical ‟state‟ which is realized in immediate experience by those who walk in the
way
6[8] That is, Abraham, who is buried in the cave of Machpelah under the mosque at Hebron, which is
called
‘al-Khalil’ in Arabic; similarly the visitation of the Messenger is the formal visit to his tomb at
In general the man to whom He has granted no immediate experience at all, apprehends no more of what
prophetic revelation really is than the name. The miraculous graces given to the
saints are in truth the
beginnings of the prophets; and that was the first „state‟ of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon
him when
he went out to Mount Hira‟, and was given up entirely to his Lord, and worshipped, so that the
Bedouin said,
„Muhammad loves his Lord passionately‟.
Now this is a mystical ‟state‟ which is realized in immediate experience by those who walk in the
way
6[8] That is, Abraham, who is buried in the cave of Machpelah under the mosque at Hebron, which is
called
‘al-Khalil’ in Arabic; similarly the visitation of the Messenger is the formal visit to his tomb at