The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the station of love and its secrets. |
Page 350 - from Volume Two (Display Image)And it is a bodily race. If he walked with it all, he would be deficient in condition, and the second of their minds is heavenly, because the minds are attributes of restriction, for the mind is restricted, as it is from the mind and the heavens the place of the angels that are bound by their stations. Angels understand with their minds in the heavens, and there is nothing in the composite universe except the heavens and the earth, and the third is their hidden souls, because when the Almighty changed the physical form, He veiled it from His appearance in its eyes, and I breathed into it from my soul, so their souls appeared from this veiled spirit. And who is named so and why was he named, and here are precise secrets, and the stories of lovers who know many. End part one hundred and fourteen ( In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful ) (Wasl) We conclude this chapter with which we call the two domains of truth for the loving knowers In wedding platforms to give epithets of lovers in love, it is from that Platform and Majali called the lover to be killed This is because it is a composite of nature and spirit And the soul is light and nature is darkness *** and both are opposites in his eyes And the two opposites are in conflict, and the two are in conflict. Each one seeks judgment for him, and the king is returned to him, and the lover is not free. Either nature overcomes him, and he becomes dark in the structure, so he loves the truth in creation, and he inserts the light into the darkness, depending on the original in his saying, and a sign for them: the night we strip from it the day, and then they are both their light. They are adjacent, even if they are opposite, and that one of them may be hidden in the other, so what harms me is that I love the truth in creation, not combining the two matters, or if the spirit overpowers him, then he is illumined by the temple, so he loves creation in truth. Because he said, Love God because of His blessings that He feeds you with. I loved him in the blessings of his command, so he witnessed the truth, and no matter how jealousy occurred between the two opposites, and he saw each of the two opposites wanted, he might get rid of his opposite. The world, even if it does not feel it Platform and Majali described the lover as being composed And that is because God created him from his apparent and hidden name, so he made him a knowledge of the unseen and witnessed, and he created for him a mind by which he differentiates between the ruling of the two names in order to establish weight between the two worlds in himself. The vision was damaged from where he did not see a condition that necessitated justice and the establishment of weight, so he went beyond the limit of assignment, as only one who is sane is charged with what is restricted by his mind. A platform and Majali called him that he is going to him by his names And that is because He was manifested to Him in the Names of the universe and He was manifested to Him in His Most Beautiful Names, so imagine, in His manifestation in the Names of the Universe, that He descended from the Truth in His right, and that was not from his understanding. And that the status of truth in it is that of a servant in His Beautiful Names. He said, I do not enter upon him except by My names, and if I go out to His creation, I shall bring forth to them with His Most Beautiful Names, so when I enter upon him with what he thinks are His names, which are the names of the universe with Him, he saw what the prophets saw of the verses in their journeys and ascensions in the horizons and in themselves. All are His names, Exalted be He, and that the servant has no name, even that the name of the servant does not belong to him, and that he is created by him like all other beautiful names. Between the worshiper and the devotee, and this is an honorable manifestation in a great platform, which was the goal of Abu Yazid Al-Bastami without it. And the The Messengers, in particular, from this Majali, described Him, Glory be to Him, with what is called in the science of drawings the attributes of simile, so they imagine that the Truth described Himself with the attributes of creation, so they interpreted that and this scene gives that every name for the universe is its origin for the Truth, and it is for creation a word without meaning, and it is created by it, so understand. |
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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. |