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The universe is blind due to an inherent deficiency in it *** and the light has no deficiency so it conceals it

You have perfection, and I have the opposite of perfection, so *** is between you and me and when we fulfill it

You have said that you are known by my knowledge *** and the sea of my ignorance is drowning in my mind

Grant me from the condition that I was in for you *** not for me, for my veil is in its manifestation

I am not surprised when he was captured by me *** and how my kinship affected his dangling

If it were not for me, the pampering would not have taken place *** and I am not guilty of what he does

So say, for your knowledge, do not rejoice, for your hands have not won *** except through apparent ignorance in it

And from this house also our saying.

If it were not for me, it would not come down *** nor be approached nor manifested

So he refused to have my eyes *** and he was exalted when he became beautiful

So I stood in his land as an imam *** the caliph of Sayyid Ma ali

I judge it by the rule of my Lord *** and it is from the eye that he has not abandoned

When my desire was fulfilled *** I called my lord he said hey

Take me to what I came out of *** He said, "Welcome to you."

[ Indeed, God, Glory be to Him, is jealous of His poor, broken servant, more than He is jealous of Himself .]

Know, may God Almighty grant you success, that God, Glory be to Him, is jealous of His poor, broken servant more than He is jealous of Himself, for He has asked His servants to be jealous. You have to be jealous of him, for you are the praiseworthy in every case and in every way, and this chapter is the highest station that a servant has, who is not behind a station at all. That time is also a visitor, so let your acceptance of the poor and your preoccupation with him until he empties his affairs that came to him. He has the rank of supremacy for the servant, and if he appears in it and in it, then he has violated it and the matter is confused with the foreigners. The promise of your eyes from them, you want the adornment of the worldly life and do not obey those who have forgiven his heart from our remembrance and follow his life, and his command is a mistake, and whoever is for the sake of God

The reason for this verse was that the leaders of the infidels from among the polytheists, such as Al-Aqra bin Habis and his ilk, said: Nothing prevents us from sitting with Muhammad except for him to sit with these slaves, they want Bilal and Khabab bin Al-Arat and others . If the servant sees him with these leaders, they do not come close to him until he is emptied of their affairs, or if he accepts the leaders and the servant with him if the assembly is vacant for them, then God revealed this verse to change the position of slavery and poverty to be digested by the attributes of glory and deity appeared in a misplaced place, so the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was after that The sitting of these servants and their ilk does not rise until they are the ones who stand from him, even if they sit for a long time, and he used to say, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, that God commanded me to lock myself up with them. May peace and blessings be upon him for some of his affairs

This is from God s jealousy for his poor, broken servant, and it is one of the greatest evidence of the honor of worship and residence on it, and it is the station to which we call people, for all souls grow up with them, the Lord of prestige and the Lord of wealth, because the glory and the rich are for God Almighty. My self-sufficiency and what is from them are accidental except by simply witnessing this characteristic, and this is why it is magnified in the eyes of people who dispense with them and abstain from what is in their hands. If the poor seeks from the rich with money something of honor or money, it falls from his eyes in proportion to that, even though he hastens to fulfill his need even if it is weighed

The Meccan Revelations · Cairo / Maymaniya translation

Volume 3 · Page 18

And from this house also our saying

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