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KNOW THAT while the eye witnesses the fashioned and bejewelled creatures, the basîrah’s inability to witness their Sâni‘ is due to nothing other than either the absence of basîrah, its blindness, its constriction under the immensity of conceiving the matter, or it is khidhlân1.
Denying the Sâni’ would otherwise be much more ridiculous than denying the power of sight like the sophists.
1 Khidhlân: Literally means an abandoning; forsaking; deserting. A state of helpless abandonment in which one finds himself deserted in his hour of need; falling into abasement through the absence of necessary guidance.
As an Islamic term, it denotes the help and aid of Allah being cut off from the ‘abd. It is also defined as Allah creating sin as a result of the inclinations of the ‘abd. This word is used in different forms in the Qur’an for the people of shirk, the companions of the shaytâns among the jinn and men who are deprived of the help of Allah (Qur’an 17:22, 25:29). (Tr.)
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