The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On the juxtaposition of “who fights with Me I defeat him and whom I fight with he defeats Me, thus tending to peace is a priority”. |
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Page 3 - from Volume Four (Display Image)![]() So beware of your ransom, flankers that revolve around what *** you do not like, and fear the battle of the Nuba If the supreme assembly came to you afflicted *** with war, give him peace and find him in flight And withdraw to him and say, O the ultimate of my hope *** Do you not know that glory is in the veil? God Almighty said: And if they incline to peace, then incline to it and trust in God. [ The servant is imitating the attributes of God .]Know that it has been established among the people of ideas that God has attributes and names that have ranks, and the slave has the ability to create and adorn himself with a specific limit and a stipulated epithet and a specific situation. The Almighty says: Pride is my cloak, and greatness is my robe The servant has attributes and names that befit him, and he has the right to be characterized by them from what the minds refer to, but the laws are contained in him and it is necessary to believe in them. Except by informing God, and likewise every name that we have endowed with from His names is also unknown attributing to Him to us, except that with our knowledge of God, we know that by informing Him. With a predominance of the truth, and the place of delinquency towards peace from this matter is to return all to Him. What He has given us from that, and if He gives us all, we will accept Him on the side of bounty. [ The reason for contention and contention are two matters of succession and creation in the image ]Know that the causes of conflict and contestation are two matters of succession, which is the leadership and creation in the image, so the caliph must appear in every image in which he appears of his successor, so the caliph must be surrounded by all the names and divine attributes required by the scholar who is entrusted by the right, glory be to him, and when the matter necessitated that, an order was revealed from him to him named it. Shariah explained in it the banks of these names and the divine attributes that the caliph must manifest and entrust to him. With the Caliph, some of them listen and obey in what agrees with their purposes and what does not agree with them, as they are in the origin of their rule from the beginning, and among them are those who do not work with noble morals and do not walk with justice in their subjects. He has complete power, but what we call delay, forbearance, and inaction is blame, not negligence. Allah, the Most High, is called the best of conformity with what the laws were revealed in them, but this imam was not characterized by them in terms of what they legislated or in terms of what the truth commanded with them. He was born on the authority of Khosrau, and he is among the deputies of kings He said: I was born in the time of the just king He called him a king and described him with justice, even if it was not in a revealed law, then it is an attribute observed by God. The messengers described that as contested and victorious, so as it appeared, he prevailed, and whatever appeared to him, the truth prevailed. War was an argument against him and against him, and the image of peace was in agreement with the truth in the banks without followers. Those are the blessings of God upon them. As for the imams whom God has delegated and appointed by the Messengers to give precedence to them in carrying out the rulings that He legislated for His servants, they are of two categories: one who justifies in truth and does not transgress what has been legislated for them, and the other part says what was legislated for them except that they did not return what they called for in the banks that he called them to. The truth is to it, and they deviated from the truth in that, and they knew that they were unjust and oppressive, so in terms of the apparent form, they are victorious and disputing, so God will give them respite so that they may return. The truth shall prevail over them by establishing an argument in opposition to it that calls to the truth and to a straight path. |
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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. |