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               24  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 9 (29): 13-37, Winter 2022
                  Also:                              Manifestation.  Of  course,  the
                      “His (Muhammad's) heart        mountain was not dearer to God
                      did not lie to him about       Almighty than Moses, to manifest
                      what his eyes had seen”.       for it. The point here is that:
                      (Quran, 53: 24)                       “The  creation of the heavens

                                                            and the earth is certainly
                  This is the vision of the heart           greater than the creation
               with the light of complete knowledge,        of mankind; but most people
               which  encompasses  the  heart               do  not  know”.  (Quran,
               and the existence of the voyager.
                                                            40: 57)

                Manifestation and Possibility           Accordingly, Ibn Arabi believes
               of Vision                             that the mountain is related to
                In  the  verse  of  manifestation,   the earth and Moses is such a
               Allah says: ”you can never see        human being, and the creation

               me” which means  that the desire      of the mountain is greater than
               to vision God is rejected by God      the creation of Moses in terms
               Almighty. There are reasons for       of image and meaning. That is,
               this  rejection,  some  of  which     the  Almighty  has  manifested
               depend  on  the  station  of  the     for  the  mountain,  because  the
               susceptible, which are as follows:    mountain  is  mountainous  in


                   1.  Stability in Vision           terms of form and meaning for
               Vision  happens  only  to  those      its stability and being a peg to
               who are stable when it occurs.        anchor  the  earth.  What  does
               Despite the fact that the Almighty    man have from the mountain?
               Manifestation was for the mountain,   Of course, it does not have the

               it was not possible for the Prophet   mountain form but its meaning.
               Moses  to  be  stable  during  the
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