The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the maximum Syriac abode, and it is from the Mousawi presence. |
Page 246 - from Volume Three (Display Image)By extracting knowledge when he was tormented, the ignorant who does not know that he is ignorant is happy because he does not know what he has missed. By complaining, Job s return, peace be upon him, was etiquette with God, so that I would not resist divine oppression, as the people of ignorance of God do, and they claim in that that they are people of submission, authorization and no objection. I complained about him and from my arms *** and that is from me because of my narrowness So I said to the soul: You call him *** So where is your claim in my breadth? She said, I complain about him *** he has my money of benefit If you do not complain about what I am experiencing *** I depart from it and from my nature And that is ignorance that is known by the heart of *** If there was no evil that is friendly to him due to my ignorance *** I would not have been called to by a reason So I said, Who called you to me? He said, I want to see the goods. The longing has passed away so I seize it *** So he appointed and prayed the eye of my interruption So what I used to find was hidden from me *** and what I used to witness was absent from me If the mind had not existed, I would not have known *** and had the tablet not existed, I would not have dictated it And had it not been for the witnesses of the universe, I would not have fulfilled it *** and had it not been for knowledge, I would not have done it Whoever says that creation knows its being ***, he does not have knowledge of what is right in it And this much of his ignorance of what *** is the matter in reality is sufficient for him If the truths are revealed, there is no doubt, and there is no doubt, and that its morning will be for the two-eyed, the sighting and the rise of the dispute and the listening, but between you and this situation there is a deadly victory, and a thirsty desert, and paths of study, and blurry trails in which the calves are swept away, so only those who live and die, not those who live and die, how is the situation of those who suffer these adversities and behave? These inconveniences, but to the extent of the pain of hardships, bliss will be with comfort, and then there is no victory but you, for you are your veil from you, and you have made the matter easy. Some of their faces are the knowledge of the whole, for some aspects of their being are the knowledge of the whole, and this house is one of the houses whose verses are many and its meanings become clear, but the eyes are in the rule of their coverings and the hearts are in their veils and the minds are occupied with fighting the desires so do not devote themselves to the consideration required of them and in this house of science the science of resisting enemies and confronting the desires with desires For if the intellects did not repel desires by means of desires, they would not attain the purpose, for souls are accustomed to nothing but taking from their desires. And in it there is a knowledge of the properties of numbers and letters, and in it there is a knowledge of the modes of numbers and what is their ruling on what they are composed of. It is not for its own sake, but for its attachments, and it contains the knowledge of what is produced by the intellectual consideration in the spatial circumstances, and in it there is the knowledge of the terms of the universes in this world and the hereafter, with the Hereafter being endless, and the generality of his saying, Everything runs to a specified term, so everything must have a purpose, and things do not end in existence. Its ends do not end, for God always renews things, and everything has a purpose. We mentioned a part of it in this chapter and what we have completed, and in it there is knowledge of the different rulings of the conditions of the hour, and in it there is knowledge of the differences of those who are assigned in their conditions, and that God addresses each category in terms of what that category is upon and does not add to it. |
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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. |