The first thought!

The first thought is divine – right – thought which is never wrong. Just as innocence and validity belong to the first thought, fate and destiny arise in it. The same is also true for the first glance, the first hearing, the first movement. The first is the knowledge that brings in the ilm (knowledge in the Islamic context) of “zecr” [knowledge about future events received from Lawh e Mahfooz (The preserved tablet) with the permission of Allah]. These types of knowledge can never be wrong, rightness is their enduring quality. Thus, those that come first are the types of truth that have forged ahead. Everything that comes after the first thought is its inner dialogue that has come into being by following the trace of the first thought.

Muhyiddîn İbn-î Arabî, Fütûhât al Makkiyya, v. 16, p. 74.

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