The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the Names of the Lord of Pride and the words permissible to call Him with and what is not permissible. |
Page 238 - from Volume Four (Display Image)" Your Kindness "But kindness is invisibility *** Kindness is not in appearance And with him is the most prominent of my being *** and with him things take place Be a slave of the gentle *** he is an expert The religion of God is easy *** and it is difficult with desires Don't disagree don't agree *** It's a lot of good And he who understands my words *** is aware of the matter The owner of this Presence is called Abd al-Latif, and his kindness and his concealment from perception is the severity of his appearance. When no eye falls except on him, nor looks without him, for sight is for every eye that sees, so what is the benefit except for those who witness it and know it by taste and watching, for imitation in that is what falls on the site of witnesses, for it is only then He was not distinguished from others, because he was not other than him, so he is distinguished from him, so what is hidden and what is then changed Kindness is not a rule *** unless you are there I am not. Then tell me *** Who will help him with his ruling? And there is in the heart of it *** if you contemplate grief From it comes clouds *** over the hearts and its darkness Confusion came running *** O my servants, my destiny is lost Where are my names and my judgment *** Where is my prohibition, where is my command? Watch me, you will find me *** in the secrets of the universe captives It is necessary for me *** so I command you my command Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed God [ The flow of divine kindness ]So look at the flow of this divine kindness, what impressed him, and his apparent wisdom in this intensity, how he showed that obedience to his Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, is obedience to him. God, then look at what the eye witnesses, and look at what faith witnesses, so whoever looks with the eye of faith sees the power of his influence in the dense, until he passes to the All-Knowing, the All-Knowing, and he obtains knowledge of the matter as it is. He stands by himself, the outward appearance of his person, from invisible objects that are a group and are nothing but his eye, and they have no existence other than his eye. Sight perceives him for his gentleness and gentleness, so some of it joins together and accumulates, then a cloud appears created by the truth, and then it appears, and it is from something that does not appear. And the He revived and made the earth laugh with plants and watered, and he did nothing except by that gentle secret from which his image arose, and in the capture of the shade and its extension of kindness. If a person thinks about it, he sees a great matter. That is why God set it up as evidence of his knowledge. Its extension is defined immediately after state, for he does not witness his movement with witnesses to his movement, so he has it moving and not moving, and so is its fi i, which is his saying, then we grasped it to us easily. If the eye of what came out of it is the truth, it appeared in a form in which he created a shadow, showing it if he wanted and seizing it if he wanted, but he made the sun a guide over it and did not expose to the completeness of the signification, which is the density of the outward body from which the shadow extends. And a return to what from it began, then to it it returns, and the eye is one. So is there anything nicer than this? For the eyes, and if you do not perceive it, then you only perceive it, for He has referred us only to a witness by His saying, Did you not see how He extends the shadow and extends it only with the sun and a dense substance that obscures the arrival of Sunlight to m The shadow of this Essence extended over him a special point of view and then his grasp as well. This is how he addressed us with it, to look at it and what he said about it. So we used to turn our gaze brilliance to the thought, but with a tool that wanted to witness the sight, even if the tools enter some of them in the place of others, but this is not known except by the presumptions of the circumstances, which are ? |
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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. |