The Meccan Revelations
Konya manuscript
وهو أن الحكيم لا يتعدى بالشيء قدره، ولا منزلته.
الباب الخامس والأربعون ومائة في معرفة مقام ترك الفكر وأسراره
ترك التفكر تسليم لخالقه
فلا تفكر فإن الفكر معلول
إن لم تفكر تكن روحا مطهرة
جليس حق على الأذكار مجبول
إن لم تفكر تكن روحا مطهرة
مثل الملائك لم يحجبك تفصيل
عن الإله الذي يعطي مواهبه
جودا وذاك الذي يعطيه تنزيل
إما لقاء أو إلقاء فتعلمه
أو الكتابة أعطتها التفاصيل
فبالتفكر وُكِّلنا لأنفسنا
لولاه ما كان إشراك وتعطيل
إن التفكر أمر قد خصصت به
لأنني جامع والجمع تحصيل
This is [concerning wisdom]: the wise one does not take a thing beyond its measure or station.
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Five: On Knowing the Station of Leaving Thought and Its Secrets
Leaving thinking is surrender to its Creator.
Do not think, for thought is defective.
If you do not think, you become a purified spirit,
the Real’s companion, innately formed for remembrances.
If you do not think, you become a purified spirit,
like angels: differentiation does not veil you
from the Deity who gives His gifts
generously. What He gives is a descent,
either encounter or imparting, which you come to know,
or writing given by the differentiations.
Through thinking we are consigned to ourselves;
without it there would be no association or denial.
Thinking is an affair bestowed particularly upon me,
for I am comprehensive, and gathering is attaining
Translator’s note TN4243-1: Maʿlūl is rendered “defective” in the poem’s criticism of fallible thought; it can also mean caused or subject to a cause. “Association and denial” preserves the pair ishrāk and taʿṭīl without narrowing the latter to one form of negation.
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