The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing “but it was like this for that”. |
Page 264 - from Volume One (Display Image)God Almighty says: He who obeys the Messenger has obeyed God, and he said, O you who believe, obey God. That is, in what He commanded you through the tongue of His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, of what he, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, said: God commands you in the Messenger of God Almighty, and then it is all commanded. So he separated the command of obedience to God from obedience to his Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace. Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed God and our obedience to him in what he, peace and blessings of God be upon him, commanded and forbade him from what he did not say is from God, so it is the Qur an. By them he means the definition and the covenant, i.e., the Messenger whom we left behind, so we made him command and forbid in addition to conveying our command and forbidding to our servants. And let him be from yourselves as it has been legislated for you, so listen to him and obey, even if he is an Abyssinian slave of stranded limbs, for in your obedience to him is obedience to the Messenger of God, may God s prayers and peace be upon him. That is why he did not appeal to those in authority: Obey. There is nothing like it, and he continued with his saying, and obey the Messenger. [ It is not for those in authority to legislate the laws: that is for the Messengers of God .]This is evidence that the Almighty has legislated for him, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, to command and forbid, and those in authority do not have the right to legislate a law, but they have the command and the prohibition in what is permissible for them and for us. Who commands and prohibits, and this is from God s generosity towards us, and the heedless of us do not feel that ( Another issue in this section ) [ The truth is not restricted by the above from below nor from below from above .]I commanded the angels and all creatures to prostrate, and he made a sacrifice with him. He, may God bless him and grant him peace, said, The closest a servant is to God is in his prostration. So that they may know that the truth is in attributing the above to Him from His saying, and He is the Omnipotent above His servants, and they fear their Lord above them, as attributing the bottom to Him. He is the Creator of above and below, just as His equatoration and descending did not restrict Him from descending to the lowest heaven, and descending to the lowest heaven did not restrict Him from ascending to the Throne, just as equating and descending did not restrict Him from being with us wherever we are, as the Almighty said, and He is with you wherever you are in the sense that It suits him and in the way he wanted, as he wanted He also said, neither my earth nor heaven encompasses me, and the heart of My servant encompasses me As Hood, peace be upon him, said about him, there is nothing but a bear, except that it is taken with its texts. And He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing |
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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. |