The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On a wise advice from the Law to benefit the seeker and the arriving, and this is the last of the chapters of this book. |
Page 556 - from Volume Four (Display Image)He heard in Cordoba from Abu al-Qasim bin Bashkwal and a group of others. In Taqweem al-Buldan by Abu al-Fida ) Ibn al-Abar said that he was met by a group of scholars and worshipers and they took from him. The people of this matter in the Levant and the Hijaz, and he has companions and followers, and he composed a collection that included dreams in which he saw the Prophet, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, and what he heard from him, and dreams that he narrated about someone who saw him, may God bless him and grant him peace. Semiticism is by the way of descending, not by the way of earning. Ibn Al-Najjar said in his right, and he had accompanied the Sufis and the lords of hearts, and took the path of the poor, performed Hajj and pilgrimage, and wrote in the science of the people and in the news of the sheikhs of Morocco and their asceticism, and he has sensual poems. He and Milih s words I met in Damascus on my trip to it and wrote about him some of his poetry, and the sheikh s goodness is he mentioned to me that he entered Baghdad in the year 601 and stayed there for twelve days, then he entered it again as a pilgrim with the caravan in the year 608 and he sang me for himself. O who is confused between knowledge and lust *** to connect the two opposites of the one who connects Whoever does not inhale the wind will not see the virtue of the fragrant musk over the manure I asked him about his birth, and he said on the night of Monday, 17 Ramadan in the year 560, in Mursiah, in the land of Andalusia There is a point between groveling and indulgence in which the world of silk gets lost It is the point of the universes if you exceed it *** I was the wise and taught you the elixir ( and his ) O white pearl of theology *** I have installed shells of humanity The ignorance of the simple is destined for their misery *** and they competed in pearls and rubies ( and who organized it ) My reality is preoccupied with it *** and my eyes have not seen it And if he sees it tomorrow *** the slain of that poplar When I saw her *** I became by sight So I fell bewitched by it *** I fell in love with magic Oh beware of my caution *** if it sings my caution By God, what dominates me *** the brevity of the guard Oh, the best of it is from a doe *** grazing with the same donkey If you ring or sympathize *** enslaves the minds of human beings As if her breath *** the customs of musk perfume As if it is the sun of the morning *** in the light or like the moon If you travel, the most prominent of them is *** the morning light of the traveler Or closed her unseen *** the darkness of that hair O moon under darkness *** Take my heart and my offspring My eyes so that I may see you *** when my sight was my fortune Al-Khouli said: Sheikh Sidi Muhyi al-Din Ibn Arabi, may God be pleased with him, said: I saw some of the jurists in a long dream, and he asked me how are you with your family, so I sang 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. |