The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the station of wealth and its secrets. |
Page 264 - from Volume Two (Display Image)And every request is authorized for an occasion, for the thing is not desired, so the request is only in something that is not with the requester in the case of the request, and therefore it is related only to nothingness, which is the eye of the non-existent. Poor when asked, and poverty is distinguished from other attributes by something that is not possible for others, which is that it is an attribute of the non-existent and the existing, and every existential attribute of its condition is that it exists with the existing. In the case of its existence and in the absence of it, it is the most general of the stations in terms of judgment, so the one who acquires from this characteristic a special addition, which is poverty to God and not to others, and he is praised, and he is the one who makes him happy and brings him closer to God and shares him in this addition. It rises by addition, and the drain, and it subsides, and it descends, in addition, and the drain is no greater poverty than the poverty of kings, because it lacks my occupations and everything that is right for him to rule, and he is poor in his possession, on which the name of the king remains. mine There is a great wind in this year that does not pass on anything except that you make it like sand, so some of his companions advised him to take a swarm in the earth in which the night of the blowing of that wind, he said, and the people perish. Life after the king s departure, let me die as a king, and by God, I did not. The reference to the saying of the Most High: We will write what they said, meaning we will make it obligatory, that is, they will know that poverty is a description of an obligation in which they do not doubt, a subjective obligation because of what they say, and we are rich because they were hidden from what is the matter of their poverty. He lies to them, so they said, We are rich, and they are not rich. And they said that God is poor, and he is not poor in his own right. He is rich and there is nothing like his saying, and God is rich and you are the poor. If you know that poverty is this equivalent, then you must remember it in every soul and in any case and attach your poverty to God absolutely without specifying, then He is more deserving of you, and if you are not able to achieve indeterminacy, then not least if it is related to God Almighty with specification. God Almighty revealed to Moses, O Moses, do not make anyone else the place of your need, and ask me until salt is thrown into your dough This is the teaching of God, His Prophet Moses, peace be upon him, and I saw him, the Almighty, in sleep, and he said to me, and entrust me in your affairs, so I entrusted him, so I saw nothing but pure infallibility, praise be to God. him about the worlds, so know that ( Chapter one hundred and sixty-third on knowing the status of the rich and its secrets )Rich is a negative adjective, and therefore *** is distinguished from the lineage of nouns by its rank Its ruling and the eye belongs to him in the absence of *** from her and she has no existence for her description The evidence in the investigation is unknown *** from those who say it and the mind proves it That is why he said rich in his revelation *** about the world of the universe in which its verse came In the spider, so turn it around, you will find it on *** what you said about denying what you give its significance And he is not known except by his sign *** This world and the Hereafter, and the Sharia is its proof [ Being rich is an attribute of God Almighty ]Know, may God help you, that the rich is an intrinsic attribute of the Almighty, for God is the Rich, the Praised, i.e. the one who is praised with this attribute. The Messenger of God, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, said, The rich is not rich in abundance, but the rich is rich in the soul. Narrated by Al-Tirmidhi And the offer is money, and this is a true prophetic word, for a person s need for the world is not valid, and it is valid to be free from the world |
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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. |