Yazma cildi 25 · Sayfa 296

راعى إلا وجهه، لم يراع من جهات العبد سوى وجهه، فلذٰلك لا يصح السجود إلا لغير الله عن أمر الله.

(السجود والعبادة والأمر)

قال الله تعالى: ﴿اسْجُدُوا لِآدَمَ﴾ [البقرة: ٣٤]، فالسجود لغير الله والعبادة لله، لا تكون لغير الله أبدا، فإنه لا أعظم من الشرك، وقد قال المشرك: ﴿ما نَعْبُدُهُمْ إِلَّا لِيُقَرِّبُونا إِلَى الله زُلْفى﴾ [الزمر: ٣]، فما عبدوا الشركاء لأعيانهم، فما أخذوا إلا لكونهم عبدوهم، فإن الله لا يأمر خلقه ولا يصح أن يأمر خلقه بعبادة مخلوق.

ويجوز أن يأمر بالسجود للمخلوق، فمن سجد عبادة لمخلوق عن أمر الله أو عن غير أمر الله فقد شقي، ومن سجد غير عابد لمخلوق فإن كان عن أمر الله كان طاعة فسعد.

وإن سجد لمخلوق غير عابد إياه عن غير أمر الله كانت رهبانية ابتدعها، فما رعاها ﴿حَقَّ رِعايَتِها﴾… ﴿إِلَّا ابْتِغاءَ رِضْوانِ الله﴾ [الحديد: ٢٧]، لأنه ما قصدها إلا قربة إلى الله، فما خلت هذه الحالة عن الله، والله عند ظن عبده به لا يخيبه، فليظن به خيرا.

(الاسم والتقييد والخيال)

فلا بد من أخذ المشركين لتعديهم بالاسم غير محله ولا موضوعه، ولم يرد عليه أمر بذٰلك من الله، ومن المحال أن ترد

account only of his face, taking account of no direction of the servant except his face. For this reason prostration can be sound only before other than God, at God’s command.

(Prostration, Worship, and Command)

God, exalted is He, said, ‘Prostrate before Adam’ [al-Baqara 2:34]. Prostration is before other than God, while worship is for God and can never be for other than God. Nothing is greater than association. The associator has said, ‘We worship them only to bring us near to God’ [al-Zumar 39:3]. They did not worship the partners for their own entities. They were taken to account only for worshipping them, for God neither commands nor can command His creation to worship a creature.

He may command prostration before a creature. Whoever prostrates as worship of a creature, at God’s command or without God’s command, becomes wretched. Whoever prostrates without worshipping a creature, if at God’s command, performs obedience and becomes felicitous.

If he prostrates before a creature without worshipping it and without God’s command, it is a monasticism he has innovated. He has not observed it ‘with its due observance’ … ‘except seeking God’s good pleasure’ [al-Hadid 57:27], since he intended it only as nearness to God. This state was not devoid of God. God is according to His servant’s opinion of Him and does not disappoint him. Let him therefore think well of Him.

(The Name, Restriction, and Imagination)

The associators must be taken to account for transferring the Name beyond its locus and proper placement, without a command having come to them from God concerning it. No command can come for