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We find passages in the Qur'an that are useful for us

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I behold Thee, 0 Lord my God, in a kind of mental trance

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Thus, while I am borne to loftiest heights, I behold Thee as Infinity

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God, therefore, is the one most simple essence of the entire universe.

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Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.

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God is an infinite circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

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For we see that man is a civil and political animal, and is naturally inclined to civilization

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You will not find another faith, but rather one and the same single religion presupposed everywhere

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Of the inhabitants then of worlds other than our own we can know still less having no standards by which to appraise them

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Even though you acknowledge diverse religions, you all presuppose in all of this diversity the one, which you call wisdom

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Therefore in the Qur'an the splendour of the Gospel shines forth to the wise, to those who are led by the Spirit of Christ

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To the various nations, however, You have sent various prophets and masters, the one for this, the other for another time.

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For a persistent and continued ascent to [the Principle and Source of] life is the constituent element of increased happiness.

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An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul].

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In God, absolute unity is absolute multiplicity, absolute identity is absolute diversity; absolute actuality is absolute potentiality

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If we approach the Divine through symbols, then it is most suitable that we use mathematical symbols, these have an indestructible certainty.

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That that which is neither true nor truthlike does not exist. Now, whatever exists, exists otherwise in something else than it exists in itself.

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Through itself the soul arrives at all harmony that is perceptible in otherness-just as through what is internal the soul arrives at what is external.

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I am a -living shadow and Thou the Truth... Therefore, my God, Thou art alike shadow and Truth; Thou art alike the image and the Exemplar of myself and all men.

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There can only be one wisdom. For if it were possible that there be several wisdoms, then these would have to be from one. Namely, unity is prior to all plurality

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With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.

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I see, Lord, through Thine infinite mercy, that Thou art Infinity encompassing all things. Nothing exists outside Thee, and all things -in Thee are not other than Thee

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[In that vision] nothing is seen other than Thyself, [for Thou] art Thyself the object of Thyself (for Thou seest, and art That which is seen, and art the sight as well)

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The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye and the rational as the colors.

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See, therefore, how you, the philosophers of various schools of thought, agree in the religion of the one God, whom you all presupposed in that which you as lovers of wisdom acknowledge

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But if you search further, you find in yourself nothing similar to God, but rather you affirm that God stands above all this as cause, origin, and the light of life of your intellective soul.

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We praise our God, whose mercy rules over all His works and who alone has the power to bring it about, that such a great diversity of religions would be brought together in one harmonious peace

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