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و من ذٰلك:

الفقر حكم ولكن ليس يدركه

إلا الذي جل عن أهل وعن ولد

الفقر حكم يعم الكون أجمعه

و لا أحاشي من الأعيان من أحد

لأنها كلها بالذات تطلبه

و الفقر يطلبها بالذات في البلد

فكلها عدد لأنها عدد

فالكل شفع سوى المدعو بالأحد

و ما سواه من الأعيان فهو كما

قلناه كالواهب المحسان والصمد

سبحانه جل أن يحظى به أحد

فلا يولد في عقل ولا جسد

قال الله تعالى: ﴿يا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَنْتُمُ الْفُقَراءُ إِلَى الله والله هُوَ الْغَنِيُّ الْحَمِيدُ﴾ [فاطر: 15]، يعني بأسمائه كما نحن فقراء إلى أسمائه، ولذٰلك أتى بالاسم الجامع للأسماء الإلهية. حقيقة سره: ﴿لَقَدْ سَمِعَ الله قَوْلَ الَّذِينَ قالُوا إِنَّ الله فَقِيرٌ ونَحْنُ أَغْنِياءُ﴾ [آل عمران: 181] فلو أنصفوا، اتصفوا بحقيقة: ﴿سَنَكْتُبُ

Also on this:

Poverty is a ruling, apprehended only

by the One exalted beyond consort and child.

Poverty is a ruling encompassing all creation;

I exclude no entity from it.

All seek it through their essences,

and poverty seeks them through essence in the land.

All are number, for they are number;

all are even except the one called the One.

Every entity other than He is as

we have said, like the Bestower, the Beneficent, the Besought.

Glory be to Him! Exalted is He above anyone’s attaining Him:

He is not begotten in intellect or body.

God, exalted is He, said, “People, you are the poor toward God, while God is the Independent, the Praiseworthy” [Fatir 35:15], meaning through His names, just as we are poor toward His names. This is why He employed the name encompassing the divine names. The reality of its secret: “God has heard the saying of those who said, ‘God is poor and we are rich’” [Al ʿImran 3:181]. Had they been fair, they would have been described by the reality of “We shall write