The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the people of the night, their different strata, their differing stations and the secrets of their Poles. |
Page 237 - from Volume One (Display Image)And that is God s protection in the likeness of our evolution *** and His infallibility among the Messengers without a doubt The poem in its entirety, and it is mentioned in the beginning of the thirty-three hundredth chapter of this book [ Bodies transform and souls become incarnate ]The arrangement of this section is what we have mentioned of the levels of transgression of customs. As for what is strange in it, it is the association of human beings with the spiritual in assimilation, and the association of the spiritual with humans in the form, and the appearance of an image of them similar to the image in which they are imitated. The Almighty said, so a normal human being is called to it, a spirit like that which is Gabriel, a spirit who gives life to the dead as He gives life to the dead. Gabriel Ibn Abbas said, Gabriel, peace be upon him, never tread on a place of the earth except that he greeted that place. That is why the Samaritan took a fist of his trail when he recognized him when he came to Moses. That calf and that was a casting by Satan into the soul of the Samaritan, because Satan knows the status of souls, so the Samaritan found in himself this power and what he knew was from the casting of Satan. In the meaning, the name, and the representative image, the human being is realized with the spiritual, and the spiritual has joined the human image in one calamity, and this amount of this section is sufficient, for it is a wide door for Mary and Asia for the realities of the messengers, peace be upon them, in which there is a wide field, for it is the house of perfection Whoever obtains it will prevail over the sons of his own kind and appear as a ruler over the owner of majesty and beauty, and he is one of the stations of Abu Yazid al-Bistami and the individuals, and God speaks the truth and He guides the way. End part twenty-first ( Chapter forty-first on knowing the people of the night, their different classes, their differences in their ranks and the secrets of their poles )( In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful ) Except that the people of the night are the people of the descending *** and the people of Maarij and the people of movement Whoever ascends towards the station with determination *** and whoever descends wants to go to the bottom By virtue of inferiority and regression, they are about *** and the existence of advancement and receiving in isolation If you say among them that they are the best clan *** you are right, they have the most honorable home And if you say about them that they are evil boys *** you are right, they are neither the Prophet nor the guardian They are not concerned with them or with others *** but they are in an earthquake stronghold Dear fever, between sights and prohibitions *** and between the south in the rising and the north There is no one among them except a blackened Imam *** if they get semen by meditation They have a look whose ruling others do not know *** They have power in every crown [ Night and Unseen ]Know that God has supported you with a spirit from Him that God made the night for his family like the unseen for himself, just as no one witnesses God s action in His creation to the veil of the unseen that He sent without them, so no one witnesses the action of the people of the night with God in their worship of the veil of the darkness of the night that God sent without them, so they are the best band in God s right And they are evil youths in their own right, they are not prophets of legislation because of the closing of the door of prophecy, and it is not said in one of them that he is a guardian because of what it involves with the name of God, so it is said among them that they are guardians, and they do not say that on behalf of themselves, even if they were given good news, so he made the night a dress for his family to wear it, so this dress conceals them from the eyes The Gentiles enjoy in their night retreats their beloved, so they call him unattended, because he made sleep in the eyes of the watchers a rest, i.e. a divine rest for the people of the night as it is a natural rest for people. People are a comfort to them, and God Almighty descends to them at night to the lowest heaven, so there is no astronomical veil between him and them, and His descending to them is a mercy for them, and He is manifested from the heavens of the world to them as It was mentioned in the narration, and he says: He who claims my love is lying. So if the night falls, he sleeps on my behalf. Is not every lover who seeks solitude with his beloved? It is I who have manifested to My servants. Is there anyone who supplicates so that I may respond to him? |
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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. |