The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the secrets of Prayer. |
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Page 540 - from Volume One (Display Image)![]() The mind witnesses what the sight does not witness The establishment of the divine prayer is the generality of His mercy to His creatures, for they are created things. He said, Most High, has given everything its creation, and mercy is a thing, and its creation is its generalization. Likewise, the prayer of the angels is perfect in character. On the types of acts of obedience and disobedience (Wasl) As for the prayer of man and jinn And it is the saying of the Most High: Those who establish prayer, so the establishment of human beings has to be attributed to them in the sense of mercy as it was attributed to the truth, and in the meaning of supplication and mercy as it was attributed to the angels, and in the meaning of supplication, mercy, completing the takbeer, standing, bowing, prostrating and sitting, as mentioned in the report. He deserves the congregational prayer and completeness, for he has perfected her character, and if something was missing from her, it was for him according to what was deficient in her. Or fifty, or ten, or more than that, or less than that, so is the prayer of the two weighty things (Connected) [The prayer of the world above and below and what is in between]God Almighty said, Did you not see that God is glorified by whoever is in the heavens and the earth, and the birds, all pure, that is, all of these have known his prayers? He glorifies his Lord with him and he is his prayer to him, so the truth described himself with prayer, and what he described himself with glorification, so this verse filled the world above and below and what is between them (Wasl) [Among the secrets of knowledge of God and the ranks of everything else][ Putting up the reasons and dependent on each other ]From God s jealousy is that a creature be given a favor over a creature so that the favor is to God He did not create a creature without making a creature over it a hand in some way. They have this because they know the realities of matters and what God has linked the world to and what His Majesty deserves, which should be singled out and not shared. [ The Prophet s confession by the Ansar is upon him ]And the The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said to the Ansar when |
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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. |