The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing secrets and realities of different abodes, and this chapter is like a summary of the chapters of this book; for each chapter we say: “from that…” but there are three or four more (titles). |
Page 429 - from Volume Four (Display Image)Creation in your right and in your time, if your time is the truth, and if it is a creation, then you do not look at it except with the eye of creation, and the judgment is subordinate to the consideration, and the view is not judged except by what it gives to a perspective from itself. The color it is in that perspective, and this is acceptable in every strength, the place of the taste, if the yellow bitter overpowers it, he said about honey if he tastes it, it is bitter, and the honey does not touch the place of the taste, but the yellow bitter touched it, so it is true in the bitterness and lies in the ratio of bitterness to honey, so know that [ Whoever answers, I answer, why does he not respond ]And from that, whoever responds, I will answer, so why does he not respond? When I answered the advocates of truth, I was a supporter of them *** and with them I supported them I say they are my eyes and my belief *** as I say if I am not an outcast The truth is ignorant or attributed to every whim *** even if the senses see that the truth has been discarded He has no limit, so you will realize it *** with him, for he has a judgment on me with this What is the ruling and what is the ruling of wonder *** Every ruling that you see is in it such and such He is not surrounded by knowledge and knowledge *** and no harm is entrusted to him from both sides He said, Do not deal except with what you have treated, so your action will return to you. Respond to God and His Messenger, if he calls you to that which gives you life, for if he calls you and you respond to him, you must be obligated if you call him. He said, And if My servants ask you about me, then I am close. He asks of His servant for recompense when the truth called him to creation and he responded, so his Creator called him to what he does by himself and keeps his eye on him, so he answered him the truth by supplying, so he was a recompense, and if he wanted he would execute him, but he answered and the truth answered him, and that was a warning from the truth for us and an education, so beware of noticing these things that the truth set up to testify So do not treat it except with what the truth has set it for him. The origin of the answer is in the world from there, and it is a strong principle. Therefore, God does not call anyone without answering him, except that matters are subject to their times for those who know that. [ Good ethnicity indicates good morals ]And from that the goodness of the races indicates noble morals It was said in a proverb that he said: Horses run according to their races. Whoever performs the morals of his master *** will do what is good and what is not good is what happens This is what I said about monotheism *** on Thursday came to us, the Night of Power He stayed with me without toil or fatigue *** from the beginning of the night until the crack of dawn He said: If the races that are the origins are good with validity and strength, then the fruit in the branches is good in existence and action. And the names of the Truth for the Truth are like the branches and the branches of the tree, and therefore the branches differ from the quarrel, and some of them are intertwined with the other, the overlapping of the divine names in ruling in the world, as he said: We provide these and these from the gift of your Lord, and what was the gift of your Lord is good. Because of the absence of the truth from its witnesses in that view [ The mention of the south is close to the clouds ]It is from this that the south is close to the unseen Whoever remembers God may hope for his remembrance *** from standing up, it may be remembrance or junub Or sitting, for God reminds him *** in every situation, without toil or fatigue This is the life in which you hope for bliss *** in the event of seriousness it is remembrance or foolishness Indeed, the one who mentions the Most Merciful has brought what *** will clear doubt and suspicion God protects my heart from his temptations *** for they may lead us to failure The rememberers said: There are three remembrances: a standing remembrance, and he is the one who has a permanent witness, the truth, and he sees him standing on what every soul has earned, but he does not witness it. |
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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. |