The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the station of leaving dignities. |
Page 370 - from Volume Two (Display Image)Air and the believer with God are better than a bird, so how does he calculate the dignity of one who shared it with a bird, and so he justified all of what we have mentioned, then he said, My God, a people asked you for what they mentioned, so you occupied them with it and qualified them for it. Because it is the most perfect masterpiece and the greatest in dignity, and if the argument is established against you, then it makes you confess and do not argue, for you know what you have and what you owe and what is his. Unemployment with knowledge is better than ignorance with work, and the reasons for obtaining knowledge are many, and by knowledge I do not mean anything but knowledge of God and the Hereafter, and what this worldly home deserves and what it was created for and for anything that it was created so that a person is aware of his affair where he is, so that he is not ignorant of himself or of his movements. An all-encompassing attribute of God, so it is the best of the grace of God, as He said, and we taught it from us knowledge of a mercy from us. [ Knowledge is the metal of mercy ]Know that knowledge is from the substance of mercy, for I have taught you what dignity is, and that it is the divine definition that this one with which you are surrounded by dignity does not detract for you from your hereafter, nor is it a reward for anything of your work except just because you came, and that your coming to it was only because of your ignorance of it, as you did not see it in it. The first came, as it happened to Abu Yazid, when he went out to seek the truth from Bastam at the beginning, and some of the men met him and said to him, What are you asking, Abu Yazid? God said to him: Whatever you seek, I left him in Bastam. Faith, if God forbids you to acquire the knowledge of witnessing it, then there is nothing less than belief in it. That is why we said that only those who are ignorant of it came to it. So when this sect had no control over it and sought it, they were coming to it. So he is afraid of divine cunning in that or a lack of fortune in the Hereafter, and they hope in the Hereafter that they have not been given anything of that in this world. ( Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Five on Knowing the Place of Leaving Honors )Abandoning dignity is not evidence *** So loud and clear for my saying, it is the most correct speech Dignity may be its existence *** the luck of the honored then the bad way So be keen on the knowledge that you have assigned *** Do not take anything but God as a substitute Covering dignity is a fulfilled duty *** for men, so do not be let down And its appearance among the Messengers is an obligation *** and through it the revelation of His revelation is revealed [ The guardian must cover dignity ]Just as the verses and the honors are obligatory for the Messenger to reveal them for the sake of his claim, so it is obligatory for the follower guardian to cover them. The guardian, no matter how he deviates from the established balance of Sharia, with the presence of the mind of the assignment with him, he is safe with his condition for the possibility that is in the soul of the Most Merciful in his right, and he is also present in the legitimate balance. The same matter of being among the slaves for whom it was permitted to do what was forbidden to others by law, so God dropped the blame for them, but in the Hereafter, he said about the people of Badr what has been proven from the permissibility of actions for them and likewise In the news mentioned, do whatever you want, for I have forgiven you And he did not say that the hadd punishment was dropped from you in this world, for the one who performs the hadd punishment will be rewarded, and he is in himself not sinning like Al-Hallaj and whoever follows his course. [ The abandonment of dignity may be the beginning of God ]Moreover, abandoning dignity may be starting with God, which is that He, the Mighty and Sublime, cannot do any of that in Himself in one whole, even though he is one of His greatest servants, and I mean the breach of the outward customs, not the knowledge of God. From that, he leaves it all to God, and nothing appears from him at all, and we have seen from those who are on this foot a group, as our master Abu Al-Saud bin Al-Shibl said, sane of his time, and some of those who do not conceal anything from his condition asked him whether God gave you the disposal and it is the origin of dignity, so he said yes since Fifteen years and we left him out of arrogance, so the right to dispose of us wants, may God be pleased with him, that he complied with the command of God in taking him as an agent, so the questioner said to him, What? Then he said the five prayers and waiting for death. |
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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. |