The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing youth and the young and their abodes and strata and the secrets of their Poles. |
Page 241 - from Volume One (Display Image)Uncovering at night as for the owner of light, for him the night and the morning are the same, so this is the meaning of his saying: So, do not make sense. guides the way ( Chapter forty-second on knowing the fatwa and young men, their homes, their classes, and the secrets of their poles )And honest boys who have no boredom *** they have a foot in every virtue and honor Dividing their conditions in their sitter *** they are between reverence for a people and his mercy And if a competent person comes, they favor him with their righteousness *** and do not catch the youth in that regret They have from the secrets of knowledge every ritual *** and what is marked with them by its sesame As the son of my priest and the one who was before him *** and who was among them of whom God knows best With this he won and preceded in every arena *** They do not answer fools with the word meh In Maymina they chose the Almighty for its place *** and it has no opposite called Meshamah Both of my Lord's hands are generous right hands *** And the noblest of the people is the one who is most generous to him If the guardian takes off his family, you see *** their clothes among the clothes of his teacher [ The fatwa is the place of strength ]Know that the fatwa has the place of strength, and what God created of nature is stronger than air, and the creation of man is stronger than air if he is a believer It was mentioned in the prophetic report on the authority of God Almighty with the angels when He created the earth and made the hadith extend its completeness and at the end of it, O Lord, did you create anything stronger than the wind? You know that north And the Almighty said, God is the Provider, the Provider of Power, the Strong. So He described the Provider with strength, because the unbeliever is the one who gives grace from those who are provided with provision. That is why we called him the one with solid strength, because toughness in strength doubles it, and the Almighty was not satisfied with strength until he described himself as being strong in it, as there was a strength that had layers in mastery of the strong, so he described himself as toughness and this is the characteristic of the people of the fatwa, for the fatwa does not have anything of weakness, as it is a state between childhood And adulthood, which is the age of a person from the time he reaches the age of forty after his birth. God Almighty says in this place, God is the One who created you from weakness, then made strength after weakness, and this is the case of the fatwa in which he is called a boy. Weakness and gray hair, which means weakness of old age until the end of life, and gray hair, which means waqar, i.e. stillness due to his weakness from movement. Weak, because it is very mobile, and it differs in its movement, whether it is from nature or from the soul It was narrated that Ibrahim, peace be upon him, when he saw the gray hairs, he said: O Lord, what is this? This is the state of the fatwa and its place and its companions. They are called young men, and they are the ones who possess all the noble morals, and no one can be in his condition with the noblest morals unless he knows the places in which he spends it and appears in it. He has no knowledge of what we have mentioned, so his claim is false and he is quick in scandal, so he should not be called a young man except one who knows the magnitudes of the universes and the magnitude of the Divine Presence. [ The origin that should be relied upon in the fatwa ]And the details of this position and the ruling of the sect in it we have fulfilled in the Letter of Ethics that we wrote to Al-Fakhr Muhammad bin Omar bin Khatib Al-Rayy, may God have mercy on him. His purpose or will is not with what should be. When the purposes and wills differed, and each owner of a purpose or will asked the boy to treat him according to his purpose and will, and the purposes were contradictory, so Zaid s purpose would be in Omar and be hostile to Khaled, and Khaled s goal in Zaid would be to enmity with Omar or his goal to be loyal to him and love him. |
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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. |