The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the abode of the two prostrations, the prostration of the whole and the part, and that is the prostration of the heart and the face, and what therein of secrets, and it is from the Mohammedan presence. |
Page 304 - from Volume Three (Display Image)In the world there is absolutely stillness, but it is always fluctuating from one state to another, the world and the hereafter, outwardly and inwardly, except that then there is a hidden movement and a visible movement. Named nor was it a transition from one house to another, and the origin of the existence of these conditions is the divine attributes of the descent of the truth to the lowest heaven every night and its ascension to a throne created and its being and no throne in a blindness. In his appearance, and he appeared in his secret, and he described himself with what it is said that he has endured, there is no god but He, He shapes us in the wombs as He wills, and turns the night and the day, and He is with us wherever we are, and He is closer to us than us. What time does the truth show you its wisdom *** at all times and does not leave it without judgment So look at the joy in the heart of those who are relieved *** of dishes from tablets from a pen It was brought by the messengers of the spirits descending *** upon our secrets from the presence of the words Every science is hidden, the glory of its demand *** on the minds that did not have the feet So I got up out of love and respect for her house *** I walk on the head running, not on the feet And since the universes were nothing but these four states, then the speech remained in the inhabitant: if it dwelt, then who, and if it moved, then to whom, and if it came together, then who, and if it splits up, then who Then there is nothing but God, then there is nothing else but Him *** and then there is nothing but His eye and His will So he dwelt in God, then he is his space, if he is in his knowledge and he has no eye, then he is his guardian, so he is depicted in the form of the servant, so he has the rule of what he created and he has what he dwelt in the night and the day. If you witness other than him, then it is his image *** and if the verses and images abound It is not other than the one who was her home *** but it is a wall that means a wall for her There is no reasonable motion in the universe just as there is no visible stillness So look at the opposite, how it is hidden *** and nothing but it appears He was impressed by a movement in an eye of silence, for the void is filled, so the world is at rest in its void, and the movement is only in the void. For they came out affirming his lordship, then they were terrified about it, so it was said to them: Go back to what you came out of, and there is no one but God, and there is no return to Him except through Him, since He is the companion on the journey. This is the truth of what we have said *** Do not deviate from rationality So be whatever you want *** for the right is monitoring And if you move to him, then he is the Guide or from him, so who is his misleading name, so he confused you, then guided you, so he repented to you with guidance, so you moved to him with repentance. With his guardian, whoever is a guardian of a guardian in God is lost to God, and the meeting is nothing but what we have mentioned It was mentioned in the report that God says, O My servant, I became sick, and you did not visit Me. He says, O Lord, how can I return to You, and You are the Lord of the worlds? He said, O My servant, did you not know that My servant so-and-so was sick, and you did not visit him? If you had visited him, you would have found me with him. For the sick person is still remembering God, a remembrance of necessity and lack, and it is the original remembrance on which the existence of the possible and the Truth, the Most High, is the companion of the one who remembers him. [ Verily, God, when he is entrusted with a guardian, is with him ]Know that God is also with you, so if you take over a guardian and God is with him, then God has gathered with God, so you have combined God and himself, and you will have the reward of what the owner of this association deserves, so I saw God by seeing his guardian. |
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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. |