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على غضب أبداه فعل عبيده

يزول بِحَمْدِ الله عنه وعنهم

و ليس كتابي غير ذاتي فافهموا

فما مثله إلّايَ فافْشُوا أَوِ اكْتُمُوا

﴿بَلِ الْإِنْسانُ عَلى نَفْسِهِ بَصِيرَةٌ﴾ [القيامة: ١٤]. فانظر أيها الولي الحميم إلى ما يحوك في صدرك، لا تنظر إلى العوارض؛ فإنك بحسب ما يحوك. فإن حاك الايمان؛ فأنت مؤمن، وإن حاك صرف ما وجب به الايمان إلى ما لا يقتضيه ظاهر الحكم؛ فأنت بحسب ذٰلك وبه يختم لك.

ولا تنظر إلى ما يبدو للناس منك، ولا تعول إلا على ما يحوك، في صدرك فإنه لا يحوك في صدرك إلا ما سبق في الكتاب أن يختم به لك.

إلا إن الناس في غفلة عما نبهتهم عليه، ولا راد لأمره، و﴿لا مُعَقِّبَ لِحُكْمِهِ﴾ [الرعد: ٤١]. وذٰلك الذي يحوك في صدرك هو عين تجلّي الأمر الذي لك وقسمك من الوجود الحق.

قال بعضهم في باب الورع: ما رأيت شيئا أسهل علي من الورع كل ما حاك له شيء في نفسي تركته. يؤيده قول النبي ص: «دع ما يريبك إلى ما لا يريبك» وقال: «استفت قلبك وإن أفتاك المفتون».

(العلم بالمعلومات وسبق الكتاب)

واعلم أن الله تعالى ما كتب

Over a wrath made manifest by His servants' deeds,

Which, praise belongs to God, passes away from Him and from them.

My Book is none other than my essence, so understand:

None is like it but I; proclaim it or conceal it.

﴿Rather, the human being is an insight against himself﴾ [al-Qiyāma 75:14]. Look, then, intimate friend, to what stirs within your breast. Do not look at incidental occurrences, for you are according to what stirs within you. If faith stirs, you are a believer; if what stirs is turning that which necessitated faith toward something not required by the ruling's outward sense, you are according to that, and with it your life will be sealed.

Do not look at what appears of you to people, and rely only on what stirs within your breast. Nothing stirs within your breast except what the Book has previously established that your life will be sealed with.

But people are heedless of what I have drawn to their attention. None can repel His command, and ﴿none can reverse His ruling﴾ [al-Raʿd 13:41]. What stirs within your breast is identical to the self-disclosure of the affair that belongs to you and your allotted portion of true existence.

Someone said concerning scrupulousness, ‘I have seen nothing easier for me than scrupulousness: whenever anything stirred within my soul concerning something, I left it.’ This is supported by the Prophet's saying, God's blessings and peace be upon him, ‘Leave what causes you doubt for what does not cause you doubt,’ and his saying, ‘Ask your heart for a ruling, even if those giving rulings have given you theirs.’

(Knowledge of Known Things and the Book's Precedence)

Know that God, exalted is He, wrote