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and goal for all things.'^41 And the lord's two feet
reveal the holy and the believer's view
in this house of speech where he is connected
to the heart and spirit of the body's life.
"On the day of resurrection the lord
will place his foot across hell and freeze it.
The heart is not based on any perception
and bears no witness till the holy is revealed
and a believer's vision appears in him,
and that vision will testify to the true
and present and existing lord, and wake
at night and fast by day. 'Our god affirms
there is no other god. A truth for angels
and the wise. He provides us with justice.'^42
"The lord's throne is this godly seat, the brain.
The right half of the brain is the spirit
of wisdom, and the left is the spirit of abundance.
The lord sits in his majesty. As it is written,
'The merciful set himself on the throne.'^43
These five lights, visible from eight angles,
are reflected on the believers' faces
and compose the lord's throne: of two eyes, ears,
nostrils, speech, and spirit perceiving taste.BE CAREFUL, JABIR
"By god, the highest and most powerful god!
We wrote these words in no other book.
Careful, Jabir! The spirit of anyone openly
speaking these words will quit its bodily form."
Then Jabir read the tablet and he fell
to the ground, bowed, and said, "I testify.- Qur'an sura 65.
- Qur'an sura 3.
- Qur'an sura 20.