The Meccan Revelations
Konya manuscript
إني قتيل خلاخيل كلفت بها
عند الطواف وأقراط ووسواس
وفي المحصب شرع الفرد ناسبه
رمي الجمار لخناس بوسواس
الله خصصه في بطن عرنته
يوم الوقوف بإذلال وإبلاس
وكن مع الفرق في جمع بمزدلف
فما عليك بذاك الفرق من بأس
من حج لله لا بالله كان كمن
سعى لظلمته بضوء نبراس
في يوم غيم شديد الحر فاعتبروا
فيما تفوه به للخلق أنفاسي
وكن إذا أنت دبرت الأمور به
ما بين عقل إلهي وإحساس
واحذر شهود إساف ثم نائلة
إذا سعيت كأسقف وشماس
وفي منى فانحر القربان في صفة
تدعى بها عند ذاك النحر بالقاسي
I am slain by anklets with which I am enamored
during circumambulation, by earrings and whispering ornaments.
In the pebbled ground the rule of the Odd One accords
with casting pebbles at a retreating whisperer.
God singled him out in the valley of ʿUranah
on the day of standing, in lowliness and despair.
Be with separation in the Gathering at Muzdalifah.
There is no harm to you in that separation.
Whoever makes pilgrimage for God, but not through God, is like one
who seeks his darkness by the light of a lamp
on a cloudy day of intense heat. Take heed
of what my breaths utter to creation.
When you order affairs through Him, remain
between divine intellect and sense.
Beware of witnessing Isāf and then Nāʾilah
when you perform the running, like a bishop and a deacon.
At Minā slaughter the offering with an attribute
by which at that slaughter you are called hard-hearted.
Translator’s note TN2856-1: The word waswās in the second half-line evokes whispering or the sound of ornaments. The next couplet uses it for the whisperer. “Gathering” and “separation” in the Muzdalifah couplet also retain their inward senses alongside the place and rite.
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Ibn al-Arabi, The Meccan Revelations — Manuscript volume 10 · Page 6 — https://www.futmak.com/english/konya/pages.php?id=2856&text=both
