The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the station of knowledge with the disparity over it between the Sufis and the realizing. |
Page 305 - from Volume Two (Display Image)He said, praise be to God anyway He praised him in any case because he is the one who is given by his clarity in every condition and clearer than this in the communication of what is with the establishment of the limits and the denial of what should be denied, for the one who is denied by change is denied who is asked by him who is in the heavens and the earth every day He is in a matter of divine states in the relevance of the objects of their being, cosmic changes in their names. One eye in different objects of the universe and I saw its images in it, so the world witnessed each other in that eye, so some of it is appropriate and it is in agreement and from it is not appropriate and it is in opposition. From that eye, what happens in the world is what happens in the world and the hereafter about the effect of the reality of that eye when the eyes of the world cling to it, like a mirror facing the sun, so its light is reflected on the cotton opposite to the reflection of the light, and burning occurs in it. And the one who is affected is natural, and there is nothing that has a natural image in the world but it does not have a divine spirit and that eye is never veiled. Expressed with benefit and harm, then this science of manifestation is one of the divisions of knowledge. The third type of knowledge, which is knowledge of the discourse of truth to worshipers according to the Sunnah, the laws Know, may God grant you success, that apart from the two weighty things of everything besides God is knowledge of God, revelation from God, and knowledge of the one who is manifested to him is happy with all of that. For this reason, the Almighty said, Did you not see that God prostrate to Him who is in the heavens and those on earth? And to them, he said, the sun, the moon, the stars, the mold, the tree, the wounds, and many of the people, which is his saying, except those who believed and did the righteous, and a few are what they say and what they are, and they mean that they are many. And the light by what God has made in it of thought to acquire knowledge of God Almighty by choice of God and gave it reason as he gave all other beings and gave him the quality of acceptance and his love with the thinking power to derive sciences from himself so that divine power appears in him, he loves leadership and appearance and lips on his kind for their participation in that and then when he gave them strength The notebook erected for them signs and indications that indicate the occurrence of its existence by their notables, and set up for them indications and signs indicating the ancient, which is the denial of the primacy of its existence and You have the evidence with its main ones that he set up to indicate the occurrence, so he took it away from the old self called God is the evidence and nothing else. The verses that are set up in the horizons and in ourselves until it becomes clear to us that it is the truth and it has become clear, and it is the one that we have expressed through the manifestation. The truth is required, and for this he was completed, and he said in the same verse, Was it not enough for your Lord? It means that it be a proof against Himself. Evidence for the knowledge of the world established the truth for this human race, a person who mentioned that he came to them from God with a message that he would tell them. They saw a sign indicating his sincerity, so they stood up and asked him: Have you come to us with a sign from him, so that we know that you are truthful in your message, for there is no difference between us and you, and we have not seen for you something that distinguished you from us, and the case is open, and from the claim what is true and what is not true, he came with a miracle, so they looked at it with a fair view, and it is between One is that it is capable of them, so he claims to spend on it at all, and it does not appear except at the hands of one who is a messenger until this Day of Resurrection. In one of these two matters and the beholder verifying it as evidence that he believed in his message and was truthful in his statement and told him about his Lord, if the evidence for the totality is according to what the claim occurred with, and it is not possible in the taste of our way to believe it with |
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This is the book of the Meccan Revelations, by the Greatest Master Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi The pagination is in agreement with the Cairo edition (Dar al-Kutub al-Arabiya al-Kubra) - al-Maymaniya - known as the Standard Edition. Subtitles have been added within square brackets. |