The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the abode of the keys to the coffers of generosity and the effect of the seen world on the unseen world from the unseen world, and it is from the Mohammedan presence. |
Page 392 - from Volume Three (Display Image)It appeared in our eyes dark as milk comes out from between dung and blood, pure milk, palatable to the drinkers. The saying of the Messenger of God, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, in his supplication: O God, make light in my hearing, and in my sight a light, and in my hair a light. Until he said, And make me a light. And it is like that, and he only asked to watch that so that it appears to the eyes, for the spiritual light is hidden and cannot be perceived by the eyes. The fire is hidden in its stones *** it is not heated unless it is raised by the fire So we know that then there is fire, or we do not see it heating up in the stone, nor burning in the ark and the afar, and so on all of the existing things for those who look and seek insight or who witness and consider it, then the truth is hidden in creation from its being a light. He who knows himself knows his Lord Whoever recognizes the mug and distinguishes the trigger, then the fire is with him, then he is on a light from his Lord. Whenever He wills He reveals it, He is the Manifest, and when He wills He hides it, He is the Inward. So if it is hidden, then there is nothing like it. Existence, with it is our back, we are light and have no sense To God God has no eye for our universe *** and for the universe the universe has no light of itself We are many and the dominant one is one *** in His Names and Attributes We only said: We are many and He is one, because the trigger is many, and the fire from each trigger is one eye, so whether the trigger was a stone or a tree. Defamation because seeking the truth from creation in order to know Himself is an insult to the correct knowledge of His Essence, for nothing is known of Him except the rank, which is His being one and particular God. And it manifested itself to you in the form of your chaining, and this is an insult to what it is in the same matter, and if not, what you are in yourself is a mental light that you have not known, and a visual light that you have not witnessed, so you have not witnessed it except with light and there is no light except Him. And the earth in terms of sight, and God Almighty did not make the description of his light except with the light that is the lamp, which is an earthly light, not heavenly. We knew him by sight Maui, then see what the lawgiver s knowledge of God is, where is it from the sight of the mind, and for this he said, the eyes do not perceive him, because he is light, and the light is not perceived except by light, and he is not perceived except by him, and he perceives the eyes, because he is light, and He is the Subtle, because He is subtle and hidden in the eyes of His appearance, and He does not know Him and does not witness it. The knowledge of taste, and what he said, the lights cannot comprehend If it were not for the light, the eye would not have witnessed it *** and if it were not for the mind, the universe would not have known it With the cosmic and divine light, the appearance of the existents that are still visible to him in the absence of them as they are to us in the event of their existence, so we perceive them rationally in the absence of them, and we perceive them with the eyes in the case of their existence, and the truth perceives them with the eye in the two states. And do not distinguish from the impossible, for the light of its possibility is witnessed by the truth and by the light of its existence witnessed by the creation, so between the truth and creation what is between the two witnesses, the truth is light in light and creation is light in darkness in its absence. Then he said light upon light: God guides to His light from these two lights, so He knows the likened and the likened to whomever He wills, and God gives parables, so He made it a parable to connect, and it is permissible in setting the impossible proverbs that it is not possible Its occurrence, just as the impossibility of existence does not exist by imposition, as well |
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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. |