The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the abode of the spiritual clink, from the Mousawi presence. |
Page 38 - from Volume Three (Display Image)You are the God whom there is nothing like *** except that which came in the revelations and books [ God created the souls in three ranks .]Know that God created the souls in three ranks, with no fourth, souls that have no occupation except to glorify the righteousness of truth. Revealing from every natural and elemental body, for God Almighty says: There is nothing but glorifies Him with His praise and The Messenger of God, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, said: The muezzin testifies to the extent of his voice of wet and dry, and the pebbles glorify in his hand, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, and in the hand of whomever God wills among his companions. And the He said in Uhud: This is a mountain that loves us and we love it All these reports indicate the life of every thing and its knowledge of its Lord, for the heaven and the earth said, We came obediently, and we know that by means of revelation, even if no news comes about. And We raised some of them above others by degrees, that some of them might take another by ridicule, and other souls subjected to us, and they are of many layers. [ God has made human souls natural machines ]Know that the souls of human beings, God has made natural instruments for them such as the eye, the ear, the nose and the palate, and He has placed in them forces which He calls hearing and sight, and so on. There are many, such as imagery, thought, memorization, illusion, reason and so on, and with this force the human soul perceives all that gives it the realities of this power of information. Different beings are all tangible, and they are composed of a strange form, which I have never seen as a sense of its entirety, but there is no part in it except that I have seen it. Not on the parts of which this image was composed, so you see him sleeping next to you while he sees himself tormented, or comforted, or a merchant, or a king, or a traveler. Warn him that he is not aware of that or of what he is in. Perhaps if the matter becomes intense, his mood changes and affects the apparent, dormant image by movement, shriek, speech, or wet dreams. Or flakes of it descend on the hearts of the saints, because the king does not descend by revelation on the heart of a non-Prophet at all or by a divine command at once, for the Shariah has been established and clarifies the obligation, the duty, the recommended, the permissible and the disliked. So as not to be under the illusion that prophethood will remain in the nation He said, peace be upon him, that the prophethood and the message have been cut off, and there is no prophet after me or messenger As long as there remains one of God s creation, God commands him to do something that is a law by which he worships him, for if he ordered him to impose an obligation, the legislator would have ordered him to do so. Abrogating the Sharia that is upon him, whereby this permissible revelation that the Messenger established became permissible and obligatory, he disobeys by leaving it. We said this is greater than that, for you claimed that God is speaking to you as He spoke to Moses, peace be upon him, and no one said it, neither from the scholars of drawings nor from the scholars of the people of taste. He commands you in the first place, for if he commands you, the ruling is like what we said in the revelation of the king. The book and others, what is the matter on it and our prohibition? |
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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. |