Yazma cildi 15 · Sayfa 6

من قَبْلُ ولَمْ تَكُ شَيْئاً﴾ [مريم: 9] قضية في عين. قضية عامة: ﴿أَ ولا يَذْكُرُ الْإِنْسانُ أَنَّا خَلَقْناهُ من قَبْلُ ولَمْ يَكُ شَيْئاً﴾ [مريم: 67] تنبيه على شرف الرتبة: ﴿هَلْ أَتى عَلَى الْإِنْسانِ حِينٌ من الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْئاً مَذْكُوراً﴾ [الإنسان: 1] مع وجود عينه؛ لأن الحين الدهري أتى عليه.

فالفقر احتياج ذاتي من غير تعيين حاجة، لجهله بالأصلح له. ومن أسماء الله المانع وهو قد ﴿أَعْطى كُلَّ شَيْءٍ خَلْقَهُ﴾ [طه: 50] حتى الغرض لما خلقه فينا أعطاه خلقه، فلا نزال أصحاب أغراض^[1]. فما يمنع إلا للمصلحة كما يملي لقوم ﴿لِيَزْدادُوا إِثْماً﴾ [آل عمران: 178] فقد أعطاهم الإثم كما أعطى الإثم خلقه.

فالحق لا يتقيد إنعامه، والقوابل تقبل بحسب استعداداتها؛ فمنعه عطاء لعلمه بالمصالح.

لذٰلك حكي عن بعضهم أنه سئل عن الفقير: ما هو؟ فقال: «من ليست له إلى الله حاجة»، يعني على التعيين ونبه أن الاحتياج له ذاتي، والله قد ﴿أَعْطى كُلَّ شَيْءٍ خَلْقَهُ﴾ فقد أعطاك ما فيه المصلحة لك، لو علمت.

فما بقي لصاحب هٰذا المقام ما يسأل الله فيه. وما شرع السؤال إلا لمن ليس له هٰذا الشهود، ورآه يسأل الأغيار فغار فشرع له أن يسأله.

ولما سبق في علمه أنه يخلق قوما ويخلق فيهم السؤال إلى الأغيار ويحجبهم عن العلم به أنه المسئول في كل عين مسئولة

before, when you were nothing” [Maryam 19:9]: a proposition concerning one entity. A general proposition: “Does the human being not remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?” [Maryam 19:67]. An intimation of the rank’s nobility: “Has an interval of perpetual time come upon the human being when he was not a thing mentioned?” [al-Insan 76:1], while his entity existed, for the interval of perpetual time came upon him.

Poverty is intrinsic need without specifying a need, because he does not know what is best for him. Among God’s names is the Withholder, and He has “given each thing its creation” [Ta Ha 20:50]. Even purpose, when He created it within us, He gave its creation. We therefore never cease possessing purposes^[1]. He withholds only for benefit, just as He grants some people respite “so that they increase in sin” [Al ʿImran 3:178]. He has given them sin, just as He has given sin its creation.

The Real’s bestowal is unrestricted, and receptive loci receive according to their preparednesses. His withholding is therefore giving, through His knowledge of benefits.

For this reason it is related of one of them that he was asked about the poor one, “What is he?” He answered, “One who has no need toward God,” meaning a specified need. He indicated that need is intrinsic to him, while God has “given each thing its creation,” giving you what benefits you, if you knew.

Nothing remains, then, for this station’s possessor to ask God for. Asking was prescribed only for one without this witnessing. He saw him asking others, was jealous, and prescribed that he ask Him.

Since it preceded in His knowledge that He would create people, create in them asking others, and veil them from knowing that He is the one asked in every entity asked