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وهُوَ يَهْدِي السَّبِيلَ﴾ [الأحزاب: ٤].

الباب السابع عشر ومائتان في معرفة الرسم والوسم وأسرارهما

الرسم ما أعطيته من أثر

‏ والوسم ما دل عليه الخبر

إن ديارا قد عفا رسمها

ما فيها للعاقل من معتبر

والوسم للتمييز إن كنت ذا

معرفة وصح منك النظر

وعنهما أخبرنا قوله

سيماهم في وجههم من أثر

في أزل كان لهم كل ما

أظهره رب القضاء والقدر

فسلم الأمر إلى علمه

وكن به في حزب من قد شكر

فإنه أولى بنا لا تكن

في حزب من يجحد أو من كفر

(الوسم علامة والرسم أثر)

and He guides the way” [al-Ahzab 33:4].

Chapter Two Hundred and Seventeen: On Gnosis of Trace and Mark, and Their Mysteries

Trace is the effect you have been given,

And mark is what the report indicates.

Dwellings whose trace has been effaced

Contain no lesson for the rational person.

The mark serves to distinguish, if you possess

Gnosis and your consideration is sound.

Of them both His saying informed us:

“Their sign is in their faces from the trace.”

In beginningless eternity they possessed all

That the Lord of decree and determination made manifest.

Yield the affair to His knowledge,

And through Him be among the party of those who give thanks.

He has a greater claim upon us. Do not be

Among the party of those who deny or disbelieve.

(Mark as a Sign and Trace as an Effect)