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المحمدي، فلا غاية له في شهوده.

وما سوى المحمدي فإنه مشاهد إمكانه؛ فما من حالة يقام فيها ولا مقام إلا ويجوز عنده انقضاؤه وتبدل الحال عليه أو إعدامه، ويرى أن ذٰلك من غاية المعرفة بالله، حيث وفى الحكم حقه بالنظر إلى نفسه وإلى ربه.

وعيسى ع محمدي ولهٰذا ينزل في آخر الزمان وبه يختم الله الولاية الكبرى وهو روح الله وكلمته وكلمات الحق لا تنفد، فليس للمحمدي غاية في خاطره ينتهي إليها.

(عين الخيال وتمثل المعاني)

فاعلم أن هذه المقامات المذكورة لا تدرك إلا بعين الخيال إذا شوهدت؛ فإن صورها إذا مثلها الله فيما شاء أن يمثلها^[94] متخيلة، فتراها أشخاصا رأي العين كما ترى المحسوسات بالعين، كما ترى المعاني بعين البصيرة.

فإن الله إذا قلل الكثير وهو كثير في نفس الأمر أو كثر القليل وهو قليل في نفس الأمر، فما تراه إلا بعين الخيال لا بعين الحس، وهو البصر نفسه في الحالين، كما قال تعالى: ﴿وإِذْ يُرِيكُمُوهُمْ إِذِ الْتَقَيْتُمْ في أَعْيُنِكُمْ قَلِيلًا ويُقَلِّلُكُمْ في أَعْيُنِهِمْ﴾ [الأنفال: ٤٤]. وقال: ﴿يَرَوْنَهُمْ مِثْلَيْهِمْ رَأْيَ الْعَيْنِ﴾ [آل عمران: ١٣] وما كانوا مثليهم في الحس.

فلو لم ترهم بعين الخيال، لكان ما رأيت من العدد كذبا ولكان الذي يريه غير صادق فيما أراه إياك.

witnesses, so he has no limit in his witnessing.

Anyone other than the Muhammadan witnesses his own possibility. There is no state or station in which he is established but he considers its ending, the state’s changing upon him, or annihilation possible. He regards this as the utmost knowledge of God, having given the ruling its due in considering himself and his Lord.

Jesus, peace be upon him, is Muhammadan. Hence he descends at the end of time, and through him God seals the Greater Sainthood. He is God’s Spirit and His Word, and the Real’s words are inexhaustible. The Muhammadan therefore has no limit within his thought at which he ends.

(The Eye of Imagination and Meanings Taking Form)

Know that these stations, when witnessed, are perceived only through the eye of imagination. When God gives their forms representation wherever He wishes to represent them^[94], they are imaginal. You see them as persons directly with the eye, just as you see sensible things with the eye and meanings with the eye of inward sight.

When God makes the many few, although they are many in the actual nature of things, or makes the few many, although they are few in the actual nature of things, you see this only through the eye of imagination, not the eye of sense. It is the same sight in both states. As He Most High said, “When He showed them to you, when you met, as few in your eyes, and made you few in their eyes” [al-Anfal 8:44]. He also said, “They saw them as twice their number, directly with the eye” [Al ʿImran 3:13], though in sense perception they were not twice their number.

Had you not seen them through the eye of imagination, the number you saw would have been false, and the one showing it would not have been truthful in what he showed you.