The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the station of dualism, which is polytheism, and its secrets. |
Page 292 - from Volume Two (Display Image)In the science of monotheism, except for those who say by the way, and not for those who say by denying the occasion, because monotheism is not an existential matter, but rather it is a ratio and lineage is not realized through disclosure, but is learned through evidence, for disclosure is a vision and vision is not related to the visible except with the ways in which the visible is. Or not, then the evidence negates the method. If he wants that it has no modality in itself, then he does not reveal it. And if he wants that its quality is unreasonable, then it can be revealed in terms of what has an unreasonable modality, but knowledge of it is obtained at the time of unveiling, for every modality that the intellect obtained from its consideration of things is impossible. He must have faith in their names, not in their reasonableness, such as descending, leveling, convulsing, turning, hesitating, laughing, amazement, contentment, and anger, for God s body has these meanings in the presence of representation like knowledge in the form of milk. If it is news, then equality has occurred, and if it is a revelation, then it is according to what we have mentioned, and God says the truth and He guides the way. ( Chapter one hundred and seventy-third on knowing the station of polytheism, which is the second )Shirk in the names is not ignorant *** on it the people of disclosure have counted They said, What is the Most Merciful? We said to them *** He is God, the first judgment There is no difference between God in His being *** denotes the Essence and what He asks It has names in everything that the speaker pronounces or makes sense And polytheism is praiseworthy at its door *** to the one who knows or is ignorant It is pure existence that does not scrutinize *** in it is the Imam of his judgment, Faisal Rather, the blameworthy one of him who *** proved it in his invalidated contract [ Indeed, God Almighty in His Essence is the One and Only ]God Almighty said, Say: Invoke God, or call upon the Most Merciful, whatever you invoke, to Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. That name is what is the essence of the Essence, and the Almighty does not answer you with the high existence of that ratio. Likewise, O Murid, O All-Hearing, O Seeer, O Thankful, O Living, O Qayyum, and O Rich, to whatever you like of the Most Beautiful Names. These are the lineages, and if they are many, then the name is one, and this lineage is attributed to it is one. So, the abundance in this one is not conceivable except in this way. Every name has shared the other name and other names. Divinity in its indication of the Essence with the reasonableness of the reality of each name. On the other hand, it is synonymous as the scholar, the knowing, the knowing, the great, the mighty, the great, the suspect, such as the knower, the expert, the acquainted, and the dissimilar like the Almighty, the Living, the All-Hearing, the One, the All-Knowing. The possible without the divine power of creation, and this proceeded in every possible, then another participation, especially in some of the possibilities. There must be a place for the validity of the creation of that offer, since it is from the fact that it does not exist by itself, then it must have a place to perform it, and that place must be willing to accept the presence of that offer in it. In this section, this section is not likely to be more than what we have referred to from these principles and summarizing this section that every matter requires division, it is not correct. |
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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. |