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العلوم، وأما التحجير ورفع التحجير في الإطلاق عليه سبحانه فذٰلك إلى الله. فما اقتصر عليه من الألفاظ في الإطلاق اقتصرنا عليه، فإنا لا نسميه إلا بما سمّى به نفسه، وما منع من ذٰلك منعناه أدبا مع الله، فإنما نحن به وله.

فلنذكر في هٰذا الباب الحضرات الإلهية التي كنى الله عنها بالأسماء الحسنى حضرة حضرة، ولنقتصر منها على مائة حضرة، ثم نتبع ذٰلك بفصول مما يرجع كل فصل منها إلى هٰذا الباب. فمن ذٰلك:

الحضرة الإلهية وهي الاسم الله^[1]

الله الله الله الذي حكمت

آياته أنه في كونه الله

سبحانه جل أن يحظى به أحد

من العباد فلا إله إلا هو

اختص باسم فلم يشركه من أحد

فيه وذٰلك قول القائل الله

وهي الحضرة الجامعة للحضرات كلها، ولذٰلك ما عبد عابد لله إلا هي. وبذا حكم تعالى في قوله: ﴿وقَضى رَبُّكَ أَلَّا تَعْبُدُوا إِلَّا إِيَّاهُ﴾ [الإسراء: ٢٣]، وقوله: ﴿أَنْتُمُ الْفُقَراءُ إِلَى الله﴾ [فاطر: ١٥].

فلله ما يخفى ولله ما بدا / نعم بل هو الله الذي ليس إلا هو

(الاسم الله ودلالته الجامعة)

واعلم أنه لما كان في قوة الاسم الله بالوضع الأول كل اسم إلهي، بل كل اسم له أثر في الكون يكون

the sciences. As for restricting and lifting restrictions upon what may be applied to Him—glory be to Him—that belongs to God. We confine ourselves to the expressions to which He has confined their application, for we name Him only by what He has named Himself. Whatever He has forbidden in this regard we forbid, out of proper courtesy toward God, for we are only through Him and for Him.

In this chapter, let us mention, presence by presence, the divine presences to which God has alluded through the Most Beautiful Names. Let us limit ourselves to one hundred presences, then follow them with sections, each of which relates back to this chapter. Among them is:

The Divine Presence, Which Is the Name Allah^[1]

Allah, Allah, Allah, whose

signs have ruled that in His cosmos He is Allah.

Glory be to Him! Exalted is He beyond any servant’s

attaining Him: there is no god but He.

He is distinguished by a Name that no one shares

with Him: it is the speaker’s utterance, “Allah.”

This is the presence gathering all presences. For this reason no worshipper of God has worshipped anything but it. Thus He, Most High, ruled in His saying, “Your Lord decreed that you worship none but Him” [al-Isra 17:23], and His saying, “You are the poor toward God” [Fatir 35:15].

To God belongs what is hidden, and to God what appears / Yes, rather, it is God, other than whom there is none.

(The Name Allah and Its Comprehensive Signification)

Know that since the Name Allah contains within its potency, through its original designation, every divine Name—indeed, every name having an effect within the cosmos that comes