The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the secrets of Prayer. |
Page 468 - from Volume One (Display Image)His essence, not in terms of his being a god, and everything other than the same truth is nourished by the food that befits him, from the use of which is the survival of that nourisher and the second worship is prayer, for it is He said: I divided the prayer between me and my servant in two halves, so half of it is for me and half for my servant This hadith indicates the validity of what the slave owns, for he added half of the prayer to himself, and he added half of it to his slave, so if he was his slave, then he is the owner of what God added to him. In this case, what is added to it, for in that there is a dispute with the truth, as he added an order to you, and you repeated it to him, and this is bad manners. He says what I want from you in this situation is that half of the prayer is for you, for the conciliator is the one who is polite with God in every situation ( Arrived but chapter in the etiquette of Friday ) Know that there are three etiquettes of Friday prayer, namely perfume, toothpicks, and adornment, and it is good dress, and there is no disagreement about it among any of the scholars ( Mind that came in ) As for al-Tayyib, it is the knowledge of the merciful breath, and it is everything that comes from the truth that makes the transaction between God and His servant pleasant in the moment, in word and deed. [ The tooth brush is the purification of the tongue of the heart by remembrance of the Qur an ]As for the siwaak, it is everything by which the tongue of the heart is purified from the Qur anic remembrance, and it is the most complete purification, and everything that pleases God, for it emanates from these characteristics of divine fragrances that are smelled by those who are exposed to smells. The Messenger of God, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, said about the tooth brush, that it purifies the understanding and is pleasing to the Lord, and that the tooth brush removes the veil between God and His servant, so he can watch it. It includes two qualities of great purity, and may God be pleased with him, and this meaning was indicated by the report in His saying, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, that one prayer with someone else is better than seventy prayers without someone else And in other than you is a sign to the worshipers of their Lord, not of themselves It is said that God has seventy veils So, match what I have mentioned to you and this news, and you will see miracles [ Good dress is piety ]And as for good dress, it is piety, the Almighty said, and the dress of piety, that is better, that is, it is the best dress. A worshiper who speaks in his prayer with someone other than God in his heart, so what is the worshiper who is conversing with his Lord and does not see Him? For the state of conversing and witnessing, none of the creatures dares to approach a servant whose condition is this for fear of God. It is what is required of him, but we hope in this abode that he will intercede for his outward appearance in his interior, as in some cases he intercedes for his inward in his outward appearance. It is from the inside, and it is supported with the outward act, so it becomes stronger against the whisperings that occur to the worshiper during prayer, so it does not have an effect on the lack of the beginning of the prayer, God s care for people. The adornment that the servant commanded in prayer was not the best adornment that a servant wears in conversing with his Lord than his adornment with servitude, and the other adornment is adornment with his Lord in He said: I was his hearing, his sight, his hand, his foot, and his tongue So the servant affirmed the conscience and adorned him, the Most High, in all his acts of worship. The forty-second part ended ( Arrival, but the chapters of the travel, congregational and shortening prayers ) Traveling affects the shortening of the prayer with spending and the collection by differing. As for shortening the prayers, the scholars agreed on the permissibility of shortening the prayer for the traveler, except for Aisha, for she said that it is not permissible to shorten the prayers except for the fearful, because of what the Almighty says: If you fear that those who disbelieve will seduce you, and they said The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, shortened his words because he was afraid They differed from that in five places, which I will mention, God willing ( Mind that came in ) We have explained to you in this section that travel is a condition necessary for everything other than God in the divine realities, rather for everyone who is characterized by existence. From the night, which is inclusion among the Arabs, with the strictness of the signifier, so the great men travel with knowledge and verification |
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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. |