The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the people of the night, their different strata, their differing stations and the secrets of their Poles. |
Page 240 - from Volume One (Display Image)The soul may find the truth there, a transcendent existence, what is its existence for it like its existence for it in the world of space and measure, so they see a more pure station, a more sacred home, and a clearness that is not limited by estimation and is not taken by photography. The important souls, and among the determination is what he received in the blindness, and the determination is the one who received it in the created earth from the remnant of Adam's clay, peace be upon him. to the lowest heaven and descends with them, so they benefit from the knowledge that truth bestows on those determinations that never crossed the throne like this every night. And the truth was closer to her than the jugular vein when he was with those in the blind and in the lowest heaven and what is between them. As for the ranks of intellects, they did not adhere to His Presence, so they attained from the sciences that befit this characteristic, from which the truth bestowed upon them, what they obtained from the knowledge that dazzles those determination. Darkness for watching [ Visual vision of visible things ]And these are the ones who know that the perception of visible things is only from the meeting of the light of sight with the light of the body enlightened by the sun, or a lamp, or what was, so that the visible objects appear. In principle, do you not see the owner of unveiling if the night is darkened and the door of his house is closed to him, and there is another person with him in that darkness, and they are equal in not revealing the visible things, so one of them is one of those who reveals to him at times, and a light appears to him that combines that light with the light of sight, and he realizes what is in that dark house of what he wanted God may reveal to him all of it or part of it that he sees like what he sees by day or by lamp, and his companion who is with him sees nothing but darkness, other than that he does not see, for that light is not revealed to him until it meets with the light of his sight, so he repels the veil of darkness. Like his companion who does not perceive anything, or his companion is like him who perceives things, so he is either one of the people of disclosure like him, or he perceives him with the light of knowledge, for the detective perceives him with the light of imagination just as the sleeper perceives him and his companion next to him is awake and does not see anything. No, rather he says that the spot was illuminated until I said that the sun was shining It disappeared and I perceived the visible things as he perceives them during the day [ The universe is darkness: it only sees with two lights ]And this issue I did not see anyone alerted about it unless it was and what reached me. The entire universe is in its origin dark and is seen only by the two lights, for this matter occurs and its counterpart, which is supported by the creation of the world. On its non-existence, if acceptance ceased to be possible, it would have been like the impossible, which does not accept creation. And the truth is capable, and it is like the light of an illuminated body, so objects appeared just as visible objects appeared in the two lights. By themselves, I mean visible things are not luminous, rather they are dark, so be wise if you are rational. This is the root of the misguidance of the wise, and they do not perceive what they did not understand. It is true, but in a manner other than what the people of speech understand and in a manner other than the way that the wise men understand by the title, not by the truth, for the wise in truth are the people of God, the messengers, prophets and saints, except that the wise by title is closer to knowledge than others, as they did not comprehend God except a god, and the people of speech from the beholders are not like that. [ The night is against the poles of the people of the night ]So the poles of the people of the night are those for whom the night is like the day, a distraction and a distraction. The Almighty said, And you will pass by them in the morning and at night. |
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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. |