The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing marking and painting and their secrets. |
Page 508 - from Volume Two (Display Image)Their eyes do not fall on things except on the truth. Some of them see the truth in things, and among them are those who see things and the truth in them, and between them there are two distinctions. The divine is the case of his saying, And We will test you until We know the Mujahideen among you. So the affliction lifts the veil of the claim that the universe was claiming, so it becomes the revelation, which is the special attachment of divine knowledge to what has happened to him. So he knew the truth of the claim of the universe from his lie. It is in this divine attribute that there is no apparent rule. In the divine side, he is based on him, and it is not correct for the matter to be except like this, for we have mentioned elsewhere that God s knowledge of things is from His knowledge of Himself, so the world came out in His image, and there is no ruling from Him at all, for He is the Lord and Sovereign of everything, so things are related to Him in every case and what It is in every case related to things, and for this reason a mistake was made by our companions and by some of the observers in that they knew God and then knew things, so they knew God in that He is the Necessary Existence for its own sake and that it is not correct to be then the Necessary Existence for its own sake. All of it is true, and there is no dispute about it according to the fair, but what is meant is nothing but the knowledge that he is the lord of this world. This one does not know him unless his knowledge of the world precedes him. He, peace be upon him, said: He who knows himself knows his Lord What he said, Whoever knows his Lord knows himself, because in terms of himself he is necessary to exist and he is the absolute rich, so do not pay attention to the absolute rich to anything other than himself. To the most likely, he found nothing but this duty of existence for its own sake, which it proved with its evidence before looking into this other issue, so he added it to it. They turned their eyes to the knowledge of the necessity of existence in itself. And I learned about this from the prophets, so I made the world a proof of it, and the greatest opening of disclosure in such a matter is that he sees the truth, so his vision of it is the same as the world s vision of the established connection, so the world is revealed from his vision of God Almighty. That is, but it is one of the characteristics of disclosure. This is the most eloquent thing with which this issue can be investigated in terms of the advance of knowledge of God from being a god to the world over knowledge of the world. On the specifics, so I praise God Almighty, when he made it clear on my tongue about this issue, for I did not have the mind to refer to it, so I should rather state it, but jealousy has prevailed over me. And He guides the way Chapter Two Hundred and Seventeen On Knowing Painting and Marking and Their SecretsThe drawing is what I gave you from the effect *** and the marking is what the news indicates Indeed, Diyara has been exempted from its drawing *** What is in it for the wise is of any value And the marking is to distinguish if you have *** knowledge and it is correct for you to look And on the authority of them he told us his saying *** He will mark them on their face from traces In eternity they had all that the Lord of judgment and destiny made manifest So he surrendered the matter to his knowledge *** and be with him in the party of those who are thankful He is more deserving of us. Do not be *** in the party of those who deny or disbelieve [ He meant by marking and drawing what was mentioned above in the knowledge of God ]Know that, according to the sect, marking and drawing are two epithets that run in eternity, as they ran in eternity, they want what preceded in the knowledge of God, not that they ran in eternity, and the fulfillment of the reference to them is clear. |
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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. |