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I’m looking for opinions on the following quote.

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Stated by Ali ibn Abu Talib:

“Whoever said in what is He(God), held that He is limited; and whoever said on what is He held He is not on something else. He is a Being but not through phenomenon of coming into being. He exists but not from non-existence. He is with everything but not in physical closeness. He is detached from everything but not in physical separation. He acts but without connotation of movements and apparatus. He sees even when there is none to be looked at from among His creation. He is only One, such that there is none with whom He may keep company or whom He may miss in its absence.”

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HARVARDgirl!! :) offline Verified User (4 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 249 #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (20 minutes after post)

let me read it & think i need time :)
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An Unknown Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (22 minutes after post)

there were some words i couldn’t get but i assume generlly it was correct,in fact 2 me it was right,it was one of Muslim’s opinions & i’m Muslim too
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An Unknown Location | 2 months, 1 week ago (1 day, 2 hours after post)

My take:

“God is Casper the lonely ghost.”

But, seriously, I find the last sentence quite interesting. Seems to be trying to win some sympathy from the reader (”…there is none with whom He may keep company…”) but at the same time making sure he also knows full well that the target doesn’t need it (”…whom He may miss in its absence”).

A decent little passage, then, but I’ll bet it loses a fair bit of its effect outside it’s parent tongue.

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An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 1 week ago (1 day, 2 hours after post)

Thanks for the reply and I agree it probably has lost some of its meaning (since it was translated from another language). However, I still find it very intriguing.

Especially, this part:
“He is with everything but not in physical closeness. He is detached from everything but not in physical separation.”

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