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على كرسي، له نظر إلى الخلق لا يزال تاليا، عنده جماعة من أهل الله وخاصته.

كلامه في الأحدية الإلهية وفي أحدية الواحد وفي أحدية الوحدانية بالأدلة النظرية، وما حصلها عن نظر، ولكن هكذا وهبها الحق تعالى له.

وحاله الحضور دائما، إلا أنه لم يحر مثل ما حار غيره، بل أبان الله له ما وقف عنده ولم يشغل خاطره بما يوجب عنده الحيرة.

قد تفرغ مع الله لقضاء حوائج الناس، يعرف الأسماء الإلهية معرفة تامة، يقول بنفي المثلية في جانب الحق.

(الخلافة والوراثة)

أخبرني الحق بالطريقة التي جرت العادة أن يخبر بها عباده في أسرارهم إن هٰذا العبد أعطاه اللهُ الرحمة بعباده والصلة لرحمه فسأله في أمر فلم يجبه الله إليه. وهو أنه سأله أن يرث مقامه عقبه.

فقال له: «ليس ذٰلك إليك. لا يكون مقام الخلافة بالورث، ذٰلك في العلوم والأموال؛ وأما الخلافة فكل خليفة في قوم يكون بحسب زمانهم، فإن الناس في زمانهم أشبه منهم بآبائهم».

فإن الحق لا يحكم عليه خلق إلا في العلم، والخلق لا يعرف أن له هذه المرتبة إلا من أعلمه الله بذٰلك.

(التعليم الإلهي)

ولقد رأيت من فتح الله عليه بصحبتي واستفاد أحوالا وعلوما وخرق عوائد،

upon a chair, looking toward creation and continually reciting. With him is a company of the people of God and His elect.

His discourse concerns divine oneness, the oneness of the One, and the oneness of unicity, through rational proofs. He did not acquire them through rational consideration; rather, this is how the Real, exalted is He, bestowed them upon him.

His state is perpetual presence, yet he has not become bewildered as others have. Rather, God made clear to him that at which he stopped and did not occupy his mind with what would cause him bewilderment.

He has devoted himself, with God, to meeting people’s needs. He knows the divine Names completely and affirms the denial of likeness with regard to the Real.

(Vicegerency and Inheritance)

The Real informed me, in the customary way in which He informs His servants within their innermost selves, that God had given this servant mercy toward His servants and the maintaining of his kinship ties. He asked Him for something, but God did not grant his request: he asked that his offspring inherit his station.

He said to him, ‘That is not yours to decide. The station of vicegerency does not come through inheritance; that applies to knowledge and property. As for vicegerency, each vicegerent among a people accords with their time, for people resemble their times more than their fathers.’

Creation exercises no ruling over the Real except in knowledge. No created being knows that it possesses this rank unless God informs it of this.

(Divine Teaching)

I have indeed seen someone for whom God opened through my companionship, who acquired states, sciences, and breaches of customary order,