The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 32 · Page 21

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Arabic

فالقرب منها هو التداني

و ما لديها من بعد بعد

فلا تقل إنها تناهت

فما لها في الوجود حد

بها تميزت عنه فانظر

فالرب رب والعبد عبد

ومن علم سبب وجود العالَم، ووصف الحق نفسه بأنه أحب أن يعرف فخلق الخلق وتعرف إليهم فعرفوه، ولهٰذا سبح كل شيء بحمده، علم من ذٰلك أول متعلق تعلقت به الرحمة. فالمحب مرحوم للوازم المحبة ورسومها.

(التجلي وعموم الرحمة)

واعلم أن الحكم على الله أبدا بحسب الصورة التي يتجلى فيها. فما يصح لتلك الصورة من الصفة التي تقبلها فإن الحق يوصف بها ويصف بها نفسه. وهٰذا في العموم: إذا رأى الحق أحد في المنام في صورة، أي صورة كانت، حمل عليه ما تستلزمه تلك الصورة التي رآه فيها من الصفات. وهٰذا ما لا ينكره أحد في النوم.

فمن رجال الله من يدرك تلك الصورة في حال اليقظة، ولكن هي في الحضرة

English

Nearness to it is drawing near,

and with it no remoteness is remote.

Do not say it has reached an end:

it has no limit within existence.

Through it you are distinguished from Him, so consider:

the Lord is Lord, and the servant is servant.

Whoever knows the cause of the world’s existence, and the Real’s describing Himself as having loved to be known, so that He created creation and made Himself known to them and they knew Him—for this reason everything glorifies His praise—knows from this the first object to which mercy attached. The lover is shown mercy because of love’s necessary consequences and traces.

(Self-Disclosure and the Universality of Mercy)

Know that the judgment upon God is always according to the form in which He discloses Himself. Whatever attribute that form properly receives, the Real is described by it and describes Himself by it. This is generally so: when someone sees the Real in a dream in a form, whatever form it may be, he attributes to Him the attributes entailed by that form in which he saw Him. No one denies this in sleep.

Among the men of God are those who perceive that form while awake, but it is in the presence

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