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وما عين لي دارا إلا هو فيه أقيم، وبه أنزل، وهو يسترني بهويته عن خلقه؛ فهو الظاهر، وأنا مخبوء في كنفه.

فإذا سمع بالآلة، أو بالنسب، فبي يسمع، وبي يبصر على ذٰلك، كما أسمع به، وأبصر به. فهو فيّ بالنوافل^[15]؛ فإنه الأصل، وأنا الزائد؛ فإن ظاهر الصورة عيني.

وأنا فيه بالفرائض، فبي يسمع، وبي يبصر.

فمن كان سمع الحق فالحق سامع

و من كان عين الحق فالحق ناظر

فيختلف التقليب والعين واحد

على مثل هٰذا كل عبد يثابر

الباب السابع عشر وأربعمائة في معرفة منازلة من أَجْرُهُ عَلَى الله

أن الرسالة أجرها متحقق

لكن على الله الذي يستخدمه

هٰذا هو العدل الذي قامت به

أعيان كون لم يزل يستلزمه

He appointed me no house but Himself: in Him I dwell, and through Him I alight. He conceals me from His creation through His He-ness: He is the Outward, while I am hidden in His shelter.

When He hears through an instrument or through relations, He hears through me and likewise sees through me, just as I hear and see through Him. He is within me through supererogatory acts^[15], for He is the root and I am the additional thing, since the outward of the form is my entity.

I am within Him through obligatory acts, so through me He hears and through me He sees.

Whoever is the Real’s hearing, the Real is the hearer;

whoever is the Real’s eye, the Real is the beholder.

The turning differs while the entity is one.

Every servant perseveres toward the like of this.

Chapter Four Hundred and Seventeen: On Knowing the Mutual Encounter of the One Whose Recompense Is upon God

The recompense of messengership is established,

but rests upon God, who employs him.

This is the justice through which have stood

the entities of a created realm that has always entailed it.